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Louis R Sander on Disk Drives

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Using Cmphicrafty

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APRIL/MAY 1986

52.50 U.S. S3.50 Canada ISSN 0739-8018

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YOU'VE ALWAYS HAD NOW YOU CAN HAVE AN

Amiga's 4,096 colors give your business graphics a visible advantage.

Amiga's 4 channels of stereo

give you a sound acVanroge

Learning on Amiga is highei

education

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A LOT OF COMPETITION. UNFAIR ADVANTAGE. Nobody ever said it was going to be

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Amiga will print the cover memo while you're working on a spread

Amiga.'" The first and only computer to give you a creative edge.

sheet. And there's probably enough

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Amiga makes you look better,

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You can't buy a personal computer

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No other personal computer gives you over 4,000 colors, stereo sound and incredible dimension. Imagine

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Need to make creative use of your time? Amiga can do as many as four or five things at once in separate win

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VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2. ISSUE 20

(OIUEMS

comm

Al'RIU MAY 1986

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power/play

FEATURES

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PREVIEW: DELUXE

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VIDEO

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This brand new "video proces

LETTERS

... -:-,«r

I'll — iii^iii —mi m

sor" for the Amiga from Elec

NEWS FROM THE FRONT

10

tronic Ails can be used to cre

ate customized home videos,

SOFTWARE REVIEWS

business presentations, anl-

Law Of the West reviewed by Ervin BoDo

18

moted commercials ond any

Lode Runnel's Rescue reviewed by Ervin nooo

20

thing else you can think of that

Percy Mason reviewed Dy Gory Fields

22

lends itself to animation,

Treasure Island & Wizard Of OZ reviewed by Kelley Essoe

24

by Matltraw Leeds

MaeblUS reviewed t>y Shay Addams

26

ApSOft-64 reviewed by Woli Lounsbery

28

Carriers at War reviewed

30

■• ssiken

Star Trek reviewed by Mark Cototie

34

Game Maker reviewed oyErvmBoto

36

Color Me & SHOW Director reviewed by Pom Horowitz

38

Kermif s Electronic Story Maker reviewed by ja* Embeny

40

X'PRESS: YOUR DIRECT LINE TO THE WORLD

70

Now you can subscribe to an Information sen/ice that puts you in direct touch with national and International news wires, up-to-lhe-mlnute stock information, ond much more. It's transmitted at 9600 baud, but requires no modem or telephone-

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ADVENTURE ROAD The Most Interactive Game Ever DyShoy Addams

47

COMPUTER WIZARD DlSk Drives Demystified by Louis F. Sander

82

AMIGA UPDATE: USING GRAPH!CRAFT Probably the

JIFFIES Assignment Sheet by D W. Sampson

85

1,2,3 Disk Directory by Daniel R Wirtslead

86

7 most-owned

Amiga package out there right now, Graph/craft is the ideal paint program for budding computer artists who tote their

GAME PROGRAMS Joggers Dy Steven Propet

87

Pachyderm Panic by Buck emidress

90

fun seriously. !.,■ louis r Wallace.

64 USERS ONLY Memgraph by" Harold Droid

93

56 Sprites by Jonotbon Roddo

96

Disk Utility by

98

:cr>en Rodda

128 USERS ONLY 128 Character Editor by John J. Konier

They coll il "ploy testing," but !en hours in front of a computer screen every day for 102

RETURN Stripper by Stephen Leven

105

Reset Switches by Stoplran Loven

107

D.B.'S Cheapsheet: , Dennis Bloomtield

109

On the Move by Ion Adam

110

COMPUTER SCIENTIST 112

JOYSTICK LUNATIC The Strange Case ol John Q. Public t^ sieve Finkei

six weeks doesn't sound much Itfce ploy. A behind-the-scenes look ot these "playtest pilots" of ihe computer gome Industry, by suny Addams

PROGRAMMER'S TIPS

The Bubble Sort by issoc MoiiR

BUG BUSTERS

USER GROUPS

118

HOW TO ENTER PROGRAMS IN POWER/PLAY

123

MAGAZINE ENTRY PROGRAM

125

ADVERTISERS' INDEX

128

115 COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

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The really exciting thing about iniegrated software is that you con tailor n ro

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Contributing Editor

Organize file informarion, then use identifying keys io produce letters and

Louis F. Sander

reports without retyping. Or you can keep research notes and selectively

West Coast Correspondent

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Entertainment that Excites the Senses

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SOFTWARE

LETTERS

TRIuMICRO

eight through ten, section 8.2.11.3, of the Easy Script manual, the reverse "II" is entered by hitting PI followed

by the up-arrow key. Then repeat I:l followed by the digit for the special

EASY TO USE,

ASCII characters per 8.2.11.2, which you explained so well. Howard Richey Sterling, Illinois

EASY TO AFFORD Teom-Mates inregroied design has resulted in a high performance program that Com modore users will discover robe one of the

To the Editor;

best available," RUN, July 1965.

la reference to the letter on printer codes (December/January I'owerlPlay), each

I would

I9K5/86

advise trying

Commodore key preceding a

group of letters and ending with the adjacent

Commodore

key

or,

turn

The beauty is that or any time you eon go from

one

progrom

information

loss."

ro

another without

FAMILY

COMPUTING.

November 1934.

'The File Manage'allows individualized file formai5...A wide variety ranges from the

Two-Line Program Helper

ing the printer off after each print

□bihry ro create primed lists...to a selective

To the Editor:

sequence.

report feature thor lets you access o certain

I feel that 1 have learned quite :i lot

As a result, I am able to direct a

group of records.' FUJN, April 1985.

about programming simply by typing

code in any of three formats: Fl f

'Worth the money, if only for the spreod-

in programs from your magazine. 1

(escape),

sheer." infoWorld, Dec. 17. 1984.

would like to pass on to you this sim

Commodore key. As an example, the

ple two-line program i developed that

expanded mode is turned on by Commodore-C and turned off by

me

Commodore-V.

features."

is very helpli.il in typing in programs with a lot of data lines. You simply add these two lines to the beginning

defining a sequence,

or

I hope this will be helpful.

"Asa marriage of convenience ond value,

delete them when you are done.

succeeds

handsomely...In

Commodore

impressive

Microcomputer.

May-June 1985.

Anthony Tamburro

of the program you are typing in, then

Team-Mafe,Write File,

Broomall, Pennsylvania

Home Office, Plus Graph

1 INPUT-LINE #";X:[NPUT

"INCREMENT'jYtfORZ = 1TO20

progrom

Micro's spreadsheet possesses

Your Petsonol Accounranr

To the Editor: I have been using Easy Script for

"Colorful graphics, sprightly music, and a

NEXTPRINT'lllOMli]

nearly two years and, although I have

variety of obstacles help keep the game

[I)OWN|":END

tried other word processors with my

2 l'KINT.VDATA":X = X + Y:

When you come to the part of the

64, 1 always return to Easy Script. I

COMPUTE!';

Gazette.

December

1984.

regarding

"!Xug Rider is definitely a ciiollenge. It gives

type RUN and follow the instructions.

printer commands and would like to

!he hard core game player as much action

"Line #'" is the first data statement line. Increment is the amount used

share them with you and your readers

program

with

the

data statements,

between lines by the author. When

made several discoveries

lively.'

who have similar problems. Printer commands are really quite

you hit RETURN, your screen will dis

simple. I have two 64'S: One is con

play 20 lines with the line number

nected to an Kpson RX-8OH/T via a

and

Micrografix

the

word

"data."

Your

cursor

MW-302

ond thrillsos he or she could possibly wont."

POWER PLAY. Apnl 1985.

Rug Rider, Entertainer 1. Corom Snowdrifts 6 Sunny Skies. Ghost Town

AND THERE ARE TWO

interface, and

REA5ON5 TO BUY NOW

should be on the first line. Just cursor

the other is connected to an Epson

over and start typing In the data state ments. Then hit RETURN and that line

I;X-85 via a Micrografix MW-390 in

Every purchase made between now and

terface. Friends of mine here at the

January 15, 1°86. will include o valuable

has been added to your program.

American Embassy in Brasilia are us

coupon book'with savings on computer

Rkbanl I. Eberbardy

ing Star Mieronies' Gemini-1 OX and

magazine

Green Buy, Wisconsin

SG-10 printers with a variety of inter

purer books, accessories and software.

faces and they report that these com

In addition, every one who moils in his

mands all work.

wonanry regisrration will

Easy Script Printer Codes

Instead of entering the F3 format

To the Editor; In reference to the letter in the De

cember/January

1985/86 Commo

mode, use the l-'l (for edit mode) key. either alone or in conjunction with

dore Power/Play regarding special primer codes in liusy Script, I've

the up-arrow key. The up-arrow key

fuund it easier to use the reverse "E"

It is rather simple to switch from

for the ESC eode, CMItS(27). This

one of these modes to another, or to

leaves an additional number available

mix them together. The Fl key, fol

for other commands In the zero to

lowed by usually one. or sometimes

nine

range. As explained on

pages

acts as an escape key. (See Table 1.)

Continued onpg. <•

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mem

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you'll

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HOW TO TAME YOUR INFORMATION

TEAM-MATE. WHITE FILE, and HOME OFFICE are tally mtegfared software programs

LETTERS two other keys, should allow the Easy

Script user to vary the print quickly and easily. Robert Arceneaux

designed to manage your data so you

can whip thousands of names and

American Embassy, Brasilia, Brazil

numbers into shape.

Use the word processes to move a paragraph or transfer text from file ro

To the Editor;

In the letters section of the Decem

file. You can even generate a form ond

ber/January

customize it by merging mtormotion from

Power/Play, there was ;i letter asking

19N5/H6 Commodore

the file monoger or by merging

about special printer codes in Betsy

spreadsheet numbers.

Script using the ASCII codes. You pro

Monnor your budget, cosh flow, ond invest

vided a partial answer pertaining to

ments with the spreadsheet. Use it to help

plan shopping ond coupon use. Keep on top of oppolnrments, critical dotes and events with the file monoger. Let it help

tile Gemini printer, I have a Gemini-lOX printer and

have been very frustrated with my inability to get the printer to produce the various pitches

and fonts from

you organize inventories, research notes, or family

within the Easy Script program. My

heolth records.

user group provided a partial answer

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that I have been able to adapt to the Gemini-lOX with Carti? + G interface, fallowing the general lines you men tioned in your answer. Maybe some others of your readers would be in terested.

Ihe Easy Script control codes on page eight through nine of the pro gram manual work only for the first two commands when you are using a

LET THE Animated

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cotor

GAMES BEGIN

graphics,

sound

effects

exciting enterrom-

ment that rhnfis the senses Ride the winds on your magic

carpet

with

RUG

RIDER Grow in strength ond power as you ptepore for the confrontation with rhe Evil Genie. ENTERTAINER I provides a coilecrion

of

fun.

from

defending the city from dreaded Trobots to pilot ing your Statshlp through

miergolocric space, to finding and destroying the Evil Worlord s nudeor reoctor Aspiring weather newsmen can begin learning their trade with SNOWDRIFTS 0 SUNNY

SKIES Predict tomorrows weather, using the wearher folklore, terminology historical

Gemini-10X—Enhance and Reverse. 'Hie rest do not work. To get empha sized type, double strike, italics, elite condensed, enlarged, superscript mid subscript rypes, and underlining, type in the control line specified in Table 2 somewhere in the heading group of

the 1-asy Script document. The pro gram is then prepared to print the special type fonts. Charles R. Wallis Deerfield, Illinois

To the Editor:

The response to Mr. Brooks' letter in the

December/January

1985/HC

Commodore Power/Play explaining how to send ASCII characters to the printer from Easy Script is correct,

patterns, and weother map found in the Main Room

but it ignores the printer interface.

Meer the challenges of COROM. a graphic adventure. Your mission is to rescue the foir princess from the evil sorcerer, defeating moorugs. monsters, groggs ond other

Non-Commodore printers must be in

obstacles on your way to victory.

Thinkers with o sense of humor will enjoy GHOST TOWN specially designed for rhe Plus d As â–Ą graduate parapsychology srudent, you' assignment is to quiet the spirits who haunt the rown of Rosedole.

Come experience the thrill of victory, the enjoyable agony of defeat with Tn Micro

terfaced some

to

the

cases the

computer,

and

in

interface interferes

with the printer's interpretation of es cape sequences and ASCII codes. For

example. Tymac's "The Connection"

entertainment.

interprets escape sequences as com

For the 064'". C-128" antJPIuia"

mands for the interlace, and therefore

For moie .nfoimarioi, on where io OuyTri Mi(ro sotuwre (OI (714) 332-6707.

KVCRO P.O Do* 11300. Santo Ano CA92711

does not pass them on to the printer. There

are

two

possible ways Continued on pg. h

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LETTERS around the problem, depending on

mands will work as described in the

escape

the interface. First, if it is possible to

response to the letter. Consult your

command is for the printer, and not

tells the

interface

that

the

put

the Interlace Into transparent

interface instnietion manual to find

the interface. Again, consult the in

mode, the Interface Will no longer

out how to put your interlace into

struction booklet for your interface in

interpret the escape sequences and

transparent mode. Some use software

order to learn just how to train your

printer commands. It will just send

methods,

interface to do your bidding.

them to the printer. However, the in

(switches) methods, and some use

terface will also not make the transla

either.

some

use

hardware

In general, it's a great idea to re

read an instruction manual after you have been using a program or piece of

tion between Commodore ASCII ami

Tile second way to get the escape

standard ASCII, so your printed text

sequences and printer commands to

equipment for some time and after

will come out with upper case and

the primer through a "smart" inter

you

lower cast

face may be outlined in the interface

Most people use only a portion of the

reversed,

inclusion

of

italics, or other anomalies.

consider yourself an

instruction manual. In some cases, a

features

The way around this side effect is

special code tells the interface that

piece of equipment

of a complex

"expert."

program

because

or

they

to tell Easy Script that the printer is a

the command is really for the printer.

didn't have need for some of the ad

standard serial printer, not a Commo

Again, in the case of The Connection,

vanced features and have since for

dore printer. Hit the appropriate code

sending two escape characters in a

gotten

(not "1") on the title screen of Easy

row tells the

instruction manuals has always pro

Script, then

answer "s"

interface to pass the

that

they

exist.

He-reading

for serial

command on. The first escape aleris

vided me with several new features

printer. If you do that and have the

the interface that the next character

that I had wished were available.

interface in

is a command for the interface, not a

Stephen I.even

character to be printed. The second

Randallstown, Maryland

transparent mode, the

escape sequences and printer com

Commodore Power/Play welcomes letters from readers.

Please send them to:

Commodore I'ower/I'lay

Table 1. Fl/[

Underline or expand text. End with El/]

1200 Wilson Drive

West Chester, PA 19380

Attn: Letters

(varies with different printers).

O

El/(

Bold or reverse text. End with PI/).

F1/&

Double-strike or inverse text. End with Fl/%.

Fl/"

Enter superscript (once for each character).

Fl/, Fl/;

Enter subscript (once for each character). Underline or bold text. End with Fl/; (varies with different printers).

Fl/<

Condensed mode. End with l:l/>.

Fl/114 " Italics. End with PI/ f 15.

Fl/ f M Elite mode. End with Fl/1 /P (capital "M" and"P").

Fl/|/pl Proportional spacing. End with Fl/|/pO. Table 2.

F3/0=0:l = 1:2 = 2:3 = 3:6 = 98:7=1 19:8=1 15:9 = 45

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I.aside Story—The Anatomy Learning System from Access Software has been released for the Commodore 64/128. Inside Story lets

you explore the inner workings of the human body and view specific organs or body parts. Fifty high-resolution screens illustrate the

body's components and how they work. You can test your knowledge of human anatomy with multiple-choice quizzes and final exams. Scores may tie printed or saved to disk, and control is by either keyboard or joystick. Inside Story retails for 834.95. (Access Software, 2561 South 1560 West, Woods Cross, UT 84087)

Mach 5 Upgrade Ihe Hacli 128 fast-disk package, which speeds up the operation of the Commodore 1541 and 1571 disk drives, has been released for

the Commodore 64 and 138 by Access Software. The cartridge plugs into the expansion port of either machine andmay be left in place at all times. Upon power-up, the cartridge automatically senses whether a 1541 or a 1571 disk drive is connected to the system and which mode the computer Is in. Mach IBS then engages or disengages the drive speed routines. The DOS enhancements are resident and active in the 64 and in all three of the 128 modes—40-column, 80-column and 64 emulation. When using a 64 (or 64 emulation on the 128) with a 1541 or 1571 disk drive, programs load up to five times faster. When using a 128

(in 138 mode), programs loading from a 1541 will load up to five times faster and programs loading from a 1571 will load at burst speed.

There is a mode selection switch on the cartridge for selecting either native 128 or 64 emulation mode. A reset switch is also provided on the cartridge body for "warm starts" of the system without turning the computer off and on again. In addition to the Hach 128 cartridge, a disk containing several other 64-mode programs is also included. A disk organizer and catalog program, two monitors, and a BASIC + 4 program for an added four kilobytes of transient memory area in the BASIC workspace are included.

Mach 128 carries a suggested retail price of $49.95. (Access Software, 2561 South 1560 West, Woods Cross, UT 84087)

Macintosh Environment on the Commodore 64 JDerkeley Eoftworks has released GEOS (Graphic Environment Operating System) for the Commodore 64, a graphic iconic user

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Music Studio for the Amiga

A,.division has released The Music Studio for the Amiga. The Music Stuflio is a music composition tool previously available for the

Commodore 64/128. The Amiga version features pull-down windows and editing functions which include commands to move, copy, repeat and transpose. Complete musical notation includes time signatures, ties, rests, measure bars, sharps and flats.

The Music Studio for the Amiga is powerful enough to work with MIDI musical keyboards in stereo. It creates musical scores with up to 16 MIDI channels controllable at the same time. A "sound board" feature allows musicians to design instruments or create new sound effects.

Retail price was unavailable at press time. (Activision, 2350 Bayshore Frontage Road, Mountain View, CA 94043)

Pro Golf Simulator

A.ccess Software has released Leader Board, a golf simulator for the Commodore 64/128. Its features Include multiple 18-hole courses, three-dimensional animation, and three levels of play. Also Included are computerized scoring, a handicap system, and strategy decisions of club, distance and other variables.

Leader Board retails for S39.95. (Access Software, 2561 South 1560 West, Woods Cross, UT 64087)

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A.-10 Inc. has announced a price reduction of the X-10

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Graphic Arts Programs for the Amiga jgis Images and Aegis Animator for the Amiga have been released by Aegis Development Inc. Aegis Images is a professional paint program and Aegis Animator is an animation and storyboard program.

Aegis Images features high and low resolution; the use of 32 colors at one time; spread and wash options for definition; dithering (automatic color blending); cycling of up to four groups of colors at one time; grids for detailed drawing; adjustable airbrush; customizable paintbrushes; tile drawing; and a convenient "fast menu" for easy access. Aegis Animator allows any Images pictures to be abackdrop for an animated sequence, as well as path plotting; storyboarding of up to nine separate animations; clone and destroy for copying and eliminating animated objects at random; movement on x and y axis for a

three-dimensional effect; full rotation; proportional sizing; metamorphic object changes; and a ghost (outline) mode. Both programs retail for $139.95, and Images retails for S79.95 alone. (Aegis Development, 2S10 Wilshire Boulevard #277, Santa Monica, CA 90403)

Actionauts Phone Number Correction Xn the February/March issue of Commodore Power/Play, we ran a news item titled "Free Robot Software," in which we provided a telephone number for acquiring Actionants software via modem. As many ofyou may have discovered,

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confronts you Is he a good guy or a bad guy? You must decide, and decide quickly,

for the risk is death.

to sundown.

Game screens, finely detailed and drawn by real artists, give you a per spective reminiscent of the opening scenes of the old TV show, GunSraoke. Although you are the sheriff, your viewpoint is from behind him.

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ward. A crosshair sight appears in the

homage to the Old West, I don't mind

as to who will next appear. I've met

air between you and your foe. Line it

lhat it is peopled by stock characters.

the schoolmarm at the train depot

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up on him. press the lire button and he falls dead in the Street—-unless he

and met her coming out of the saloon.

tor, Mexican bandit, saloon girl, and

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darkens and lines of dialogue appear.

schoolmarm don't act as you'd ex

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unique entrance theme, has a person

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appearance.

thority, how

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around you. Like everything else in

is reserved for dialogue, and your ad

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him down and let him walk away, he

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first efforts of a new company. De

may go oft"and commit a crime. Again,

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lection makes it quick. Because the

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your scorecard.

many games for the Atari VCS and was co-founder of Aclivision, I have only

and consequences,

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deserving of superlatives is one of the

admiration for the play value and a

the town, a smooth, movie-like dis

profound respect for the execution.

replied, and

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Miller has been around long enough

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another and docs it quickly enough

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that there is no delay. Because a ran

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devious ever

constructed

fora computer,

3-D mazes with ups and dooms as well as in's and oufs.

he prefers not to be stepped on, tend ing to frisk about just out of reach.

And, of course, you must do all ihis under the watchful eyes of the Bungeling guards who patrol eaeh maze.

Bump into a guard and you lose a life.

Don't look for ladders, or hars eidier, for that matter. After all, the bad guys chased the l.ode Runner through too many of those and the)- know that

thai must be negotiated before you

any you've .seen and. because they are

can go on to the game. If you think the 46 mazes provided are too easy,

three-dimensional, better than most.

you may edit them. Pressing V at any

paths, as in Pac-Man, your mazes here

Rather

than

running complicated

he can negotiate them well. There fore, they have set new hazards to

time takes you into the edit screen

consist

where you can select any of the

streams and islands. Hazards abound.

mazes and alter it as you see fit. Mow-

keep the

Sound is fair, limited to the bleeps

ever, you can only make them tougher.

and blurps usually found in arcade-

l.ode

Runner in, but not

good enough to keep his daughter out. Alexandra has different lalents.

F5 will allow you

to select any

of buildings,

pedestals,

type games, and joystick control is a

maze for testing purposes, so if you

little

Alexandra is an excellent swimmer,

can't make it through level three and

so long as she doesn't try to swim

holding the stick diagonally, to corre

you're just dying to know about level fifteen, this is your chance for a pre

spond to the slant of the screen, but

against Hie current. She is also good at

hiding and

view, Iliu what you do in (he test mode

steps

a

fact, if she

mushroom,

even thai will take some practice.

You don't have to know anything

does not contribute to your lotal

about

grows taller and stays that way for a

game score, nor will that option allow

short time. And wich longer legs, .she

games to enjoy Lode Runner's Rescue.

you to skip to the endgame screen

In fact, the only connection is the

can jump twice as far.

and rescue the Lode Runner. You're

No opportunity lor a maze is over looked. Even the title screen is a maze

title. But if you enjoy mazes, then go

going to have to do it the hard way,

with Alexandra on her mission and

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Synapse recommends

she

20

on

jumping.

strange.

Graphics in the game are as good as

the

original

drive yourself crazy.

Lode Runner

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REVU-WED BYdAttY FIELDS

Perry Mason:

As Perry

The Case of the

Mason,

Mandarin Murder

you must

dig up

Computer: Commodore 64 Publisher: Telarium Spinnaker Software

enough evidence

One Kendall Square Cambridge. MA 1)21 39 Medium:

Disk

Price:

S32.95

to not only prove your

JLf names like Perry Mason and Delia

client's

Street conjure up drama, mystery and suspense, you arc ready for Party Ma son: The Case of the Mandarin Mur

Hamilton Burger picks up a gun from the evidence (able, then turns to Lieutenant Tragg.

-« THIS REVOLVER

c OMPf.nro a uors ouwt OBJECTION "On what grounds are you

objecting, Mr. Mason?" THE QUESTION A8KS FOR AN OPINION. "Objection sustained." Burger storms back to his

seat.-YOUR

innocence, butfinger the murderer as well.

der, a text adventure from Spinnaker's

Telarium series. Laura Knpp, a woman recently re

tor Burger's questioning of a witness,

a game where collecting and deci

but

phering information is SO important.

you

must

know

upon

what

leased from a menial institution, has

grounds. Falling to supply a legal ob

been arrested for the murder of her

jection makes Judge Northrup over

estranged husband Victor, owner of

transcripts of the ease you are han

rule your objection.

dling. But if you want transcripts of

the

Mandarin

restaurant.

The

As a lawyer, you would have access to

case

'Hie game's command vocabulary is

against Laura is tight: She had a mo tive (Victor wanted a divorce), and

just under 1,200 words. Because of

them yourself. To minimize this in

she was arrested at the crime scene

this, the game may not understand

convenience, Delia keeps track of the

synonyms. To get places, you don't

trial's important events.

with the still-smoking murder weap on by her side. She says she didn't do it, and you as Perry Mason believe her. With the aid of your assistant

Paul Drake, you must dig up enough evidence to not only prove I .aura's innocence, but finger the real mur

derer as well. Then with Delia's aid, you must present the case in court.

As Mason, your fob is to collect

evidence to introduce in court. But your ability to argue and prove legal points is also important. You have to

know what to do with the items you find and how to connect the pieces of a legal puzzle. You must combine tim ing, facial expressions and legal ma neuvers to prove your points to Judge

Northrup and influence the jury, It is

this murder case, you'll have to keep

need commands like "go north" or

If you are a Perry Mason fan or

"go south." Instead simply say "go to

enjoy solving murder mysteries,

apartment." The challenge is not so

much finding locations, but observing them and making eonnections. Build your case on evidence and don't jump to conclusions. Jumping to conclusions can result in some odd

responses. For instance, if you ask the doorman, "Did you kill Victor?" he will respond "i don"l know. I'm just a doorman." Not exactly the response you would expect from a person on the witness stand.

The Case of the Mandarin Murder has two unexpected features: sound and graphics. Detailed musical scores set the atmosphere, and the game of

fers an option for graphics displays.

you'll like The Case of the Mandarin

Murder. This is a lengthy, complex case requiring four disk sides, and will require both lime and thought. The game can be saved and restarted at any time, which gives you a chance to ponder the evidence.

The Case of the Mandarin Murder lets you become Pern- Mason. You'll

feel the part of a lawyer, but to win, you'll have to use your brain.

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Trial Triumphs

• Study the lawyer's Handbook carefully. A demo is included to give the novice a taste of things lo come. • Keep Drake busy digging for evi

not enough to merely Investigate the case and analyze the facts.

Since the bit-map graphics are called

The game comes with a 12-page

cessing the disk, there is a short wail

ness, don't anger the jury. You may

while the disk spins. But because (he

win the point but lose the case.

"Lawyer's

Handbook."

It

includes

hints on investigating the case, how to use Drake and Street effectively,

examination procedures, and sugges tions on courtroom theatrics. This is the first game I've seen that lets you smile, sneer, or curse to influence the jury or intimidate a witness.

You can always object to I'rosccu22

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into the computer's memory by ac

displays are well done and in some

dence, or he'll waste time eating. • When trying to discredit a wit

• The program expects you to act

eases supply clues, I suggest you en dure the wail and enjoy the pictures.

some

Since these graphics are an option,

questions.

they can also be turned off. One sorely missed feature is the ability to dump the screen text to a printer.

This is an odd omission from

logically, so

don't

strange

be surprised by

answers

lo

illogical

• Bear in mind that you will learn valuable legal lessons each time you

play, so relax and enjoy. easier.

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RE\'IE\VED BY KELLEY ESSOE

Treasure

Island and The Wizard of Oz Computer: Commodore 64 Publisher: Windham Classics Spinnaker Software One Kendall Square Cambridge, MA 02139

Medium:

Disk

Price:

(26,95 each

Ifyou've always

wanted to kick Long John Silver's wooden leg right outfrom

under him, or A'm noi alone in my love of Treasure Island and The Wizard of Oz, for

You ftr« In I It* parlor of <Mn Admiral H«nl»ow Inn. Tim front door In to ) in> worn, and to tti*» uoulrt i™ * e«rt»lr»«cl

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these are two of the greatest classics of all time. Generations have enjoyed them. Millions have read them, in

her broom—

cluding Spinnaker Software. And now,

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chance.

ver's wooden leg right out from un

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are in the parlor, busy with your

As Jim Hawkins, the young hero of

seaman by the name of Billy Hones,

Treasure Island, your goal is to re

tions, excellent full-sentence parsing,

cover the legendary treasure of that

and, most importantly, each game places you in the starring role of hero

infamous pirate warlord, Captain Flint. Therefore, you are, of course,

or heroine. So instead OfJllSt reading about all the fascinating characters, all

going to have to attain possession of

citing twists and turns as the tale un

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the thrilling adventure, and all the ex

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From the moment youngjim I lawkins first meets the volatile Billy Bones to the climactic battle for the gold on Treasure Island, this adventure game brings lo life the scenes and charac24

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the treasure map. But beware, for the

burly, sea-scarred pirates who once searching for the treasure—and are noi exactly going to take kindly to your intervention. Fortunately, you'll

find some help from a few honest, good men like the gallant

Captain

Smollett, and throughout the adven ture you will sporadically

receive

messages of encouragement (ostensi bly ) from author Robert Louis Steven son, himself. Your adventure begins on the misty shores of Bristol, England, in the tav ern of the Admiral Benbow Inn. You

work, when in walks thai mysterious

who recently came to stay at the inn. When you muster up the nerve to speak to the rather fearsome old seadog, you discover that his tongue can

be loosened only with the aid of a good shot of rum. With a full tankard in his large callused hand, he begins to weave his tales about swords and

pistols, death-defying deeds, buried treasures

and those irresistibly be

guiling "gentlemen of fortune." Your

heart beats last, and your mind fills like a billowed sail with dreams of

high sexis adventure and pirates' gold. You are suddenly, helplessly, under the spell.

If, however, the book-like package

of your Windham Classic is The Wiz ard of Oz, you will be Dorothy, and will explore a strange technicolor Continued on pg, 120


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SOFTUIHRE RENEWS

REVIEWED BY SHAY ADDAMS

Moebius Computer: Commodore 64 Publisher: Origin/Electronic Arts

2755 Campus Drive

San Matta, CA 94403 Medium:

Disk

Price:

J36.00

Moebius offers

mazes make you Crazy? Do your

maps of adventure games look like

determined

the scribblings of a deranged dwarf? With

convenient

auto-mapping and

not a single maze, Moebius may be

adventurers at least 50

the solution to your dilemma. Set in

the Oriental

land

of Khantun. this

hours of

quest casts you in the role of a disci

ple training under a martial arts and Zen master. Moebius the Windwalker. Kaimcn, a renegade disciple, has sto len the master's Orb of Celestial Har

uncommon

fantasy role-

mony, causing earthquakes, droughts

.Invoke Stop

ttag.it'

Utter pr

playing.

and other calamities, ll'.s up to you to track him down and return the Orb.

The odyssey takes you through the realms of earth, air, water and fire.

Each is depicted from

a birds-eye

view, where the picture scrolls UHi/Hrt-srylc to reveal more of the terri tory as your character moves. It en compasses 26 types of richly

trated

terrain—marsh,

dry

illus

ground,

cowers, ocean—and huge temples of

white stone crisscross the land.

Among your initial belongings.

you'll find a map that's displayed when the appropriate key is pressed. (All commands are issued from the

keyboard, with each action listed in one of several pull-down menus.) Lines and dots show your previous

with your sword, you can clear a path.

This slowly dulls the blade, but it may be sharpened with a whetstone. You have one at the start and musl find a

ple—no stores will be found in Khan-

learned the proper mantras from the good monks. They will also bless any

tun. You'll also rely on your wits to acquire the necessary food and water.

position.

have to round up vials of body and

ples and priests for healing, you'll

you'll soon find a building map that

mind elixirs yourself. Dangling from bamboo crosses are the victims of Kaimen's kung fu assas

presents a detailed sketch of all the

sins, sword-wielding guards and evil

temples and other sites, and a "popu

lation lens" that reveals the location of Khantun's people. By comparing the various maps, you can get your bearings without having to draw your own.

On the road again, you can move in any of eight directions, not just lour. Thick bamboo forests frequently im pede your progress. By hacking away 26

APRIUMAY '86

That's because five of the magic spells require fasting and praying, and

And instead of visiting the usual tem

After searching the treasure chests

there.

replacement by meticulously opening chests and interacting with the peo

path and buildings you've discovered. A blinking dot Indicates your present

that turn up in the bamboo groves,

them to the temples, which means

defeating the evil monks now living

monks. Hut if properly approached, even the dead will help you. The liv

ing citizens of Khantun are represent ed by large faces [hat drift around the land. Choose one of lour phrases from

the prayers won't work unless you've

charms you find. With the right com ponent (esoteric items such as panda

hair or tiger teeth), each of the six charms lets you cast a different spell. A hit of rellex action is demanded, though, in order to divine die nature of a charm prior to having it blessed. Day

turns into

night,

rain

falls,

earthquakes shake the ground—these

and other animated effects enliven the story as you seek the Orb. Single lines of text intermittently appear be

a menu, and you can talk to them and

low the picture to describe the imme diate situation. You can also type "L"

get

to listen. Text describes the sounds of

assistance.

The

other people

you'll meet are the good monks im prisoned by Kaimen. You won't get

far without rescuing and

restoring

nearby people in distress, or of ap

proaching danger. Tigers or the palCont/nued mi fig

122


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SOFTWARE REUIEUIS

KI-VIKVCED i!V WALT L.OCNSBE:RY

ApSoft-64 Computer: Commodore 64/128,

SX-64 Publisher: FS! Software

P.O. Box 635 Faribault, MN 55021 Medium:

Disk

Price:

(39.95

/\pSoft-6'i by I;s! Software Is an In expensive way to

obtain Apple

il

compatibility without complexity. It runs programs written in Applesoft

on your Commodore 6-\, Commo dore 1 2H or SX-fvi, uses your current

bers.

disk drive and requires no additional

through "Convert," the questionable

hardware.

Since ApSoft-64 emulates the Ap plesoft BASIC interpreter of the Apple II, some Apple machine-language rou tines will not work with the program. In Other words, you cannot take just any disk directly from an Apple II and

use it, and there is no means to use Apple II peripherals. However, there is a large pool of Apple II programs

that ApSoft-64 can tackle, particularly educational

programs

anil

software

electronic bulletin boards. And you may want to take advantage of the unique features provided by ApSoft-

64, which go beyond simple Apple soft emulation.

ApSoft-64 provides extra com mands in addition to the regular com mands of your Commodore 64.

It

provides all the commands of Apple soft with only a few omissions, name

ly PLASH, STORE, "ft", RECALL, and SCRN. It does not support the Apple

11 DOS, and since the Commodore hi does not have a labeled ESCAPE key,

the Apple II editing-key sequences are not supported.

One of the .subtle aspects of the Applesoft language is its use of "soft-

switches." These are emulated by Afi-

Sqft-64. Soft-switches arc imaginary switches in the machine that are acti vated by POKHs or PEEKS to Imagi

a

program

is

sifted

lines should be checked.

ApSoft-64 goes

While many

Apple owners

claim

their machine has more features than

beyond simple

Commodore computers, a close ex amination

Applesoft emulation

reveals

that

Applesoft's

main claim lo fame is graphics com

mands. All of these commands and

and supports the

screen modes are well implemented

Commodore 64's

in ApSoft-64. ApSoft-64 provides two graphics screens and the plotting

spite generation

commands to go with them. Shapetables and condensed-plotting com

developed by local school systems. If you have a modem, you can down load public domain programs from

Once

mand tiles in memory quickly draw a

series of lines. ApSoft-64 also supplies Union graphics. Other soft-switches

commands to save

toggle primary and secondary display

disk.

screens or the high-resolution graph

these

tables on

The package also includes a shape

ic mode. One of the soft-switches is

lile-editor,

not directly supported, although the

Shape tables arc very useful for re

equivalent is given in the ApSoft-64 manual. For example, PEEK( - l(>3Si)

arc commands for

will get a character from the key

drawn shape or rotating it (SCALE"

board in Applesoft, but not in ApSoft-

64. The CALL command also may be used with negative addresses for spe cial functions in Applesoft. Substitutes

for many of these special CALL com mands arc provided in the ApSoft-64 manual.

A few Applesoft programs will re quire some rewriting to operate un der ApSoft-64. This is aided by a pro

called

"SHAPK-CKKATH."

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and ROT= ). The two tab commands are used in low-resolution graphics.

VTAB and HTAB are simple com mands, but they are used with alarm

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Soft-64. The writers of ApSoft-64

COmmands and puts the program in a

supported

lokcni/ed formal similar lo the regu

went beyond simple emulation and the

Commodore

64's

sprite generation as well. A series of

nary memory addresses. For example, there is a soft-switch located at ad

lar Commodore program format. This

commands allows defining the sprite

converted program can be saved to

dress -16301. Any POKE or PEEK to this address switches to the splitscreen mode with text and hlgh-reso-

disk for use or further editing. If there

locations in memory, setting up their color(s). and positioning them on the

are

screen. There is no

28

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statements

it

cannot

handle,

it

builds an extra file on your disk that contains the questionable line num

specific

sprite

data save-to-disk command, but SYS Continued on />g, 12 J


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menu system

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record album and opens up into a three-paneled folder. The front cover

warfare,

features superb artwork, dramatizing

a Japanese air attack on a U.S. carrier task force. Historical notes on each of

three battle rnxips laminated for mark with

a

grease

pencil,

a fourth

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menus

.supply

information

or

serve as connectors to other menus;

only three menus actually allow you

The three action menus lie at the

heart of Carriers at Weir's menu-driv en system. In the "group orders" dis

play, you set the orders for each of your task groups. There are four main

squadrons, but has the advantage of cutting down the preparation time

needed when you finally decide to launch the air strike. Once you have finished with the

to enter orders. Grasping how each

types of missions: strike, cover, sup

menu connects to it.s neighbors can

port,

be confusing at first, but the player-

task groups can also perform bom bardment and transport missions. In

This starts up the game clock, which

addition

increments. While the clock is in mo-

aid curd provides a schematic dia gram of the entire menu

network.

With a little game experience, cycling

through the menus will become al most second nature. An

introductory

tutorial

in

the

or

escort.

to

In

some

specifying

scenarios.

the

mission

type, you also determine the task group's speed and course here.

The Other tWQ action menus con trol the launching ol air strikes. In the

Player's Manual for the Pearl Harbor scenario helps immeasurably in learn

"set strike routine" menu, you order

ing to play. The

and assign a target for the strike. The

tutorial

runs you

through the entire scenario, and is meant to be read as you play, explain

ing what actions should be taken at each decision-making juncture. Going through tlie Pearl Harbor scenario

squadrons to be armed and fueled, computer calculates the distance and estimated Hying time to the target, informing you if any .squadrons have

Insufficient range. The "'set order rou

orders, cycle back to the master menu and select the "run" option. advances in accelerated five-minute

tion.lhe computer executes your or ders, moving task groups, conducting

Searches, readying planes, and send ing out air strikes. Tor the time being, your role is finished and you can sim

ply sit back and watch the action un fold on the high-resolution map screen. The clock can be .stopped at any instant and new orders entered. Additionally, the computer will inter

rupt the passage of time automatically

once with the tutorial and a second

tine" menu allows you to arm your planes without sending them on an

whenever a sighting occurs.

time on your own should be sufficient

actual strike. This leaves the carrier or

to teach you the different routines for

air base in a very vulnerable stale, and

C.aniers at War streamlines the com

entering orders in the game. 30

APHIL/MAY '86

also tires the crews of the readied

The system of menus and orders in plexities of carrier warfare, leaving you free to concentrate on strategy


SOFTWHRE REUIEWS and tactics. The computer bandies all

of operations. Experience may reveal some of the answers, bin others will

of the mechanical routines, taking into account factors and details you

need be aware of only peripherally. The game also recreates the swirl ing fog of misinformation and uncer tainty so common to those real-life carrier battles. Sighting reports are of ten more misleading than helpful, transforming

cruisers or

destroyers

into carriers and diverting your atten tion away from the enemy's main threat. Battle reports likewise suffer from a large degree of inaccuracy. In one scenario,

the Japanese

pilots

(who were notorious for their exag

The game also recreates the swirling fog of

remain forever obscured in the game's machine-language programming. Nevertheless, the true measure of a good game is whether its strengths

misinformation and

not only outnumber, but also offset,

uncertainty so common

its weaknesses. Carriers at War passes

to those real-life carrier

sence of carrier warfare—the impor

battles. Sighting reports

and steady nerves. The critical com

this test with ease. It captures the es tance of planning, maneuver, timing,

mand decisions require almost a sixth

are often more misleading than helpful.

gerated claims in battle) reported the

sense in grasping the enemy's inten

tions and the deployment of his task forces. Do you launch your air strikes

now at the task force of battleships

destruction of nine U.S. carriers, al

and cruisers already in range? Or do

though the entire American tleet, in

number of planes for reconnaissance.

fact, contained only (hree.

you wait for the enemy's carriers to

The opportunity to commit or cor

be found, leaving your own carriers

no ruder shock

rect the mistakes of history should

open to a possibly decisive strike if

than being hit by an enemy air strike

rest with the players, not the computer.

you are spotted first? These choices

hiunched from carriers your reports

In the same vein, when you play an

typify the kinds of determinations you

said were rusting quietly on the bot

un-modified game, Carriers at War

will have to make during the course

tom of the Pacific. The .skclchincss of

removes control of submarines from

of a game.

the intelligence available to both the

the players. Subs can generate sight

Carriers at

Japanese and Americans creates the

ing reports and are very useful for

scenarios—Pearl

same potential

reconnaissance purposes, acting like

Midway,

and blunder as the historical com

an advanced picket line to warn you

Cruz, and the Philippine Sea. The

manders faced in the real war.

of the enemy's approach (which, inci

Computer can take either side in any

dentally, is how submarines were of

of the scenarios or you can match

system has one significant drawback:

ten

during the war—in

yourself against another player. All ol

The computer must access the disk

picket lines). Designating patrol areas

the scenarios contain more than one

whenever entering or leaving

for submarines, therefore, is a small

command

menus segment. This process takes

but still

Thus, it is possible to command only a

close to a minute each way and can

planning. Yet not only docs the com

part of the Japanese or L'.S. forces in a

slow

puter pre-dcploy your submarines, it

scenario and let the computer control

particularly during periods of fre

does not tell you where they have

the rest,including the enemy's planes

quent sightings, ism the Interruptions

been assigned. This can be corrected,

and ships, too. Conversely, one player

are less of a problem because they

however, by using the Design Manual

could be assigned to each different

also correspond

to modify the program, as 1 will ex

command position for a multi-player

plain in a moment.

contest involving up to seven people,

The game

holds

for surprise, deceit,

On the flip side, however, the game

the

greatest

game down

the

considerably,

to the

periods of

enemy activity. Thus, you

usually have enough to occupy your

deployed

important

component of

The large role played by the com

although

War comes with six

Eastern

Harbor.

Coral

Solomons,

position

for each

Sea,

Santa

side.

the logistics of cramming

mind while waiting for the computer

puter in handling many of the games

seven gamers

to finish accessing the disk, so you arc

routines leads to another problem—it

board and monitor make me wonder

less conscious of the delays.

keeps you from gaining more

how much fun this would be.

In some ways, Carriers at

War

than

just a vague understanding of how

around

a single key

Besides supplying half a dozen

'Hie fault here lies with the Player's

game scenarios, the designers of Car riers at War have revealed the tools

conduct

Manual. The rules adequately explain

of their trade in the Design Manual,

indicating the

how to play, but fail to address many

which

of the game's finer points. For exam

your own scenarios. The procedure is

should follow and the computer man

ple, the rules tell you how to read the

a complex one and requires about the

ages the rest. The game does not al

weather menu, but never describe—

same amount of data you would need to publish a doctoral dissertation on

streamlines play too much, taking

some

away

decisions

players.

For

that

belong to the

instance,

searches merely by

you

compass directions the search planes

important

you

how

to

construct

low you to order the planes to con

centrate on certain sectors of the map, or even to choose the number of

bad weather will have on operations.

the subject (this is only an observa

Does high cloud cover reduce the ef

tion, not a criticism).

planes that will cam- out the search

fectiveness and/or accuracy of air

The tutorial takes you step by step

es. Historically, one of Japan's costli

searches? Are air strikes also affected?

through the creation of a scenario on

'ITie answers to questions like these

the Japanese carrier raid on Ceylon in

can have a crucial role in the planning

Continued on pg. '-'-'

the

failure

to

allocate

a sufficient

general terms—[he effects

tells

even

est errors in the Battle of Midway was

in

procedures work.

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SOFTWARE REUIEUIS Star Trek: The Kobayashi Alternative

The circumstances

surrounding the disappearance of

Computer; Commodore 64 Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Captain Sulu's starship

1230 Avenue of the Americas

are so complex that it

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takes a probe of ten solar systems—51

xTlhv ardent follower of the Star Ttek Baga can probably guess [he foundation of [his contest from the program's title.

REVIEWED BV MAKKCOIONi;

different planets—to uncover all the clues.

ITicse Trekkies mxiy

remember one particular scenario that dealt with Captain Kirk's S[arflect

Academy's cadet performance evalua tion exercise, a fabricated "no-win" mission administered 10 all members

of (he graduating class in an attempt

tory letters from Startled, a printed

10 determine the Federation's poten

copy of Sultl's last transmission, and

displays the status of the vessel's func

tial commanders. This test was enti

an overview of the Enterprise's crew

tion boards. This acts as :t priceless

tled

and operating systems,

the player

monitoring panel to keep tabs on fac

eases into the Bridge Commxinder's

tors like speed, destination, and loca

chair.

tion, as well as engines, shields and

the

course,

Kohayashi Kirk

not

Maru, and,

only

of

proved bis

worth by risking bis neck, but also established

his

superior

The bottom quarter of the screen

phasers.

analytical

As both strategic leader and inter

skills by successfully resolving [his "UflSOlvable" situation. Kirk's unprec

planetary detective, your responsibil

edented completion of the Maru mis

search

sion brought to light the need for an

nent facts to reconstruct the Hcinlein's disappearance, but you are also

your crew.

for this new breed of distinguished Academy graduates. And so we have (he Kobayashi Alternative.

accountable for the safety and well-

ual as if you were actually speaking to

Players enter (his adventure as the

upgraded, more formidable challenge

ities are many. Not only

for

must you

and sift through

perti

The

narrow

two-line

window

above this is an area where you. in the

role of Kirk, can communicate with Here, orders and

ques

tions are directed towards an individ

being of the Enterprise and ail its in

him. So, a command such as. "Take

habitants. True, you do have the assis

Spock to the transporter room" might

tance of some highly skilled helping

now be phrased as a conversational

legendary James '1'. Kirk, aboard the

hands, but in the end. all areas of navi

exchange, like;

USS Enterprise as commander of a

gating, fighting, maneuvering, trans

"Spock."

starship dream-squad.

porting, and communications arc un der your direction.

"do to the transporter room."

one missing from the ship's register is

To facilitate the incredible influx of Information that each Captain must

'Hie statements typed in this area

Captain Hikaru Sulu, your close friend

access, Star '/'refc's playfield is unique.

can only

and former helmsman. While he was

Instead of the usual full-screen input/

physical

acting as temporary captain of the USS

response scrolling format that has be

left, right) or nonverbal action (give,

Heinlein.

Spock, Scott,

McCoy, L'luira and Chekov are among

the notable crew members. The only

Sulu's starship

vanished.

"Yes, Captain?"

"Acknowledged, Captain."

represent your voice. All movement

(north, south,

come the staple of most prose con

take, shoot, examine) is carried out by-

Tlie circumstances of this disappear

tests, the authors have opted to divide

pressing specified function keys.

ance are so complex (hat it will take a

the screen into a stacked series of

probe often solar systems—5 I differ

interactive text windows, 'Iliis allows

"spoken" addresses appears in the re

ent planets—to uncover all the clues.

for a variety of intelligence sources to

maining upper portion of the screen.

Upon acceptance of [he mission to find Sulu's ship, prospective Captains

be tapped and attended to simulta

Uach entity you

neously, providing a good imitation of

unique

obtain all necessary background and briefings from the 30-page manual.

the break-neck pace witnessed so of

changes can be lively, humorous, and

ten on the television rendition of the

After reviewing a couple of imrodnc-

starship's bridge.

realistic. livery attempt has been made to capture the characteristic

34

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Any

type of response to

approach

personality,

so

the

your

has

a

inter


50FTU1RRE REVIEWS clues, liven if you can't distinguish a

color that the Star Trek scries helped

must use Starfleet Protocol." This

incorporate into each crew member.

identifies thai a problem has arisen,

Klingon from a Trihhlc. there's a vari

Trekkies are sure to gel a kick out of

but does little to specify its nature.

ety of Imaginative lands and beings lo

Misspellings, Incomprehensible state

visit. At lighi speeds, you can move

McCoy's

snappy

responses,

Spock's

unemotional deductions, and Scotty'S

ments,

Incorrectly approached

between such mismatched planets as

unmistakable accent.

crew members all result in the same

Niau, a world entirely populated by

ambiguous reply. At times, you will

females, and Orna, a land that is home

This is Simon & Schuster's first at

and

left wondering exactly what

to

a

giant

protoplasmic/amoeboid

tempt at an adult text adventure, and

be

they should be commended on their

you've done wrong. To an easily frus

species. Once familiar with the spe

trated explorer, or someone who is

cialized jargon and the multitude of

tion of the Enterprise. Veteran and

simply unfamiliar with the Star Trek

available options, you will

novice adventurers on their maiden

itinerary, early goings may he ;i bit

quite easy

voyage might be thrown off balance

trying.

desire.

smooth ride and accurate representa

find

il

to carry out your every

by the unusual command process, but

(Hit the firsi-rale adventure that is

And if, by chance, you are one of

this is to be expected. After you have

beneath this initial technical difficulty

those true Trek fans who still lives for

a few rap sessions with the crew and

is well worth the occasional struggle.

those classic midnight

familiarize

visual

'Hie ensuing exploration of the ten

The Kobayasht Alternative is a fanta

layout and "speaking" technique, the

solar systems is akin lo involvemeni

sy come true: your chance to join the

ship's bridge will feel like home.

in ten related but separate adven

Enterprise immortals in a brain-strain

yourself with

the

reruns, then

tures—each worthy of its own televi

ing Stint through

countered was when I was confront

sion episode. Every planet has iis own

Beam yourself aboard, strap yourself

ed with user errors. Whenever any

diversified suqiriscs to offer, and each

in, set your coordinates, and be on

incorrect command

the

will have to be approached a little

your way. And may you live long, and

computer responds with "Alert, you

differently to obtain the concealed

prosper.

'Hie only lingering problem

Ren

is entered,

the final frontier.

Q

Quick Captain's Course The designers of The Kobayasbi Al

note the following people and places.

Casablanca in deep

ternative have taken great pains to

You never know who might

space? Monitored by

depict the Enterprise. Unfortunately,

pressed into service.

he

Tanzer.

Deck # 12 Observation Deck.

when the simulation is approached by a non-Trekkie like myself, lessons in

Deck#l

(Bridge): Although it is

Starfleet ways can come the hard way,

never mentioned in any

often by death or imprisonment. The

of the

orientation manual that accompanies

Commander

this adventure will give

your

Captains a

documentation. new

Avoca

is

helmsman.

Deck # I ft Warp Drive — guarded by I;reeman.

Deck #19 Shuttlebay for the

Galileo craft. Deck #22 Computer. • Above all. The Kobayasbi Alter-

good start, and perhaps these tips will

manning the position va

keep them going.

cated by Sulu. (Starship Lab): Supervised

native is a screening exam for poten

by Kerasus.

posed to he a leader, so act like one.

• Successful completion of this ad

Deck #2

venture requires the exploration of

the

solar system. It is easy to designate

quarters

of McCoy,

the planets to be visited, for they are

Spock,

the only ones which will detail land

and Kirk.

Even if you are unsure of what to do,

Security—with crewmen Ohara and Lee.

don't let others know you are pan

ing coordinates during an orbital "scanning."

Never

try

to

Deck #7

transport

Uhura,

sleeping

'this program will dismiss you (with a

Contains

ten different planets, one from each

Deck #5

tial Federation Captains. You're sup

Chekov,

low score) if you appear to be mental ly unraveling at your command post.

icky. • If you can't seem to gel a crew

yourself onto a planet's surface with out exact coordinates. A couple of

Library—supervised by l.itowinsky.

member to understand a command,

mistaken yards in any direction, and

Sickbay—Burke helping

there are a few possible reasons. First,

you might materialize yourself in the

McCoy with duties.

cheek to see that the person you arc-

heart of a mountain. Besides being ill-

Transporter—the

addressing is capable of earning out

advised, it is always fatal.

location where you can

your order. Each member of the crew

pick up a 1'haser,

can only perform his or her designat

manual gives a rundown on some of

Communicator and Tri-

ed chores. Make sure the order fits.

the

corder from KcnncT,

Or perhaps your error is one of proto

aboard the 1-nterprise, but leaves much uncovered. To be sure, many of

Scott's aide.

col. Check to see that you are using

Engineering—where

correct terminology. If you still can't

the locations on the 23 levels in the

Maraht oversees the

get the person to comply, then the

starship arc mere window dressing—

Antimatter.

order you are giving is probably inci

(Rec Deck): Where else

dental. Try to approach the problem

can you get a copy of

in a different way.

• Know your ship and crew. The important

names

and

places

like the bowling alley up on deck

21—but a serious Captain should

Deck #8

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disk, you arrive at the editor. Mere are

is for you

the paths to the various libraries and editors as well as the main program editor. In a window at midscreen are all the programming lines you'll need,

arranged in alphabetical order so that you may scroll through them quickly to find the one you want. Once you've found the line, click

the joystick button to move it to the actual program area below, then push your stick forward or back to find the

and share them with friends who do

next line you need.

not own Gamemaker.

Should your selected line call for a

Or better yet, enter your best effort

variable or a sprite, that part of the line is highlighted until you lill in the

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information, such as screen coordi

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nates or spritename. It is as easy as it

my game, where you shoot arrows at

sounds,

and

the pre-written

com

race cars and get a quacking sound at

mands save you both time and syntax

creating.

errors.

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From here, you may access the li

The

background

editor

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makes fine detail possible, and allows

How good can the games be? It's

braries that are contained on the Hip

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for greatness. If you've ever had an

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with color.

sic. I suggest you page through these

To me, the creation of sounds and

idea for a game but doubted your pro gramming abilities, or if you've ever

libraries first to familiarize yourself

music is stilt a mystery. Yet, in hop

wondered how

with them. Or, if your idea calls for

ping around the editors with a joys

game

something not contained in a library,

tick, I

then Gsmettmker is worth your con

you may go to the appropriate editing

sounds and incredible music. Fortu

mode and create your own sights and

nately, for others like me who may

In fact, although the name belies it,

sounds.

have a tin ear, the library of sounds

1 think it is as valuable for dissecting

and music is quite simple.

as it is for construction, allowing you

The sprite editor is familiar, con sisting of an enlarged grid where the

was able to create credible

are

the elements of a

combined

into

a

whole,

sideration.

Any game elements you create can

to take a game apan and examine it

joystick

be saved to your own library disk, and

piece by piece. Perhaps it should have

clicks and movements, as well as a

any game created can also be saved to

been called GamemakeiiCume Vn-

"life-size'' image of the sprite you're

disk. This way, you can write games

Maker.

sprite

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drawn characters from the ColorMe

The ColorMe program is whimsical

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and I'un, and can provide hours of

own

and menus

creative

splits the screen into three sections:

thai make

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entertainment

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almost

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option,

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ground, middle, and sky.

Show Director

lect your stars from 40 characters

dren. The program disk enables bud ding young artists to create original

background"

Next comes audition time. Yon se

Show Director puts your name on

comprised of actors,

actresses,

and

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the director's chair as you write the

signs or original creations. The fin

script, choose the background, select

included in any one scene. After the

ished masterpieces can be saved and/

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or

printed.

ColorMe

can

also

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nate background music and sound ef

animator. Each character gets a

supplemented with a ColorMe Supply

fects. Like ColorMe, Show Director is

second movement sequence, using a

Box containing printing paper, but

an excellent example of structured

joystick or arrow keys. A color bar at

tons, a coloring book binder, cards,

creativity, and provides the user with

the bottom of the screen helps you

and envelopes.

the Idols necessary to create "a really

keep track of the time limit.

30-

The opening screen of ColorMe has

big show." Show Director is more so

a simple menu and a blank "drawing board," A crayon functions as the

phisticated than ColorMe, and is rec

music,

ommended lor the eight and older set.

scary or sad. You can also choose sev

printer, allowing the child to select

to

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varied

can choose

footsteps.

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the action. If you decide to develop

be filled in with color using the "fill"

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the plot first, you will use Show Di

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you have the option of changing it.

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simply

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complete

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and contains full cursor movement,

pointing io the "text" icon and typing

process is fascinating, and the end

insert and delete,

letters on the keyboard. The letters

results arc very satisfying.

commands.

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'"oops"

icon.

can be varied according to size and color.

If the filth icon is selected, a new menu

appears

with

processor

is

scene,

funny

which

points

opening

or

puts your name in lights, you decide

and

the

from dramatic

from five different options. He or she can draw outlines using "crayons" of thicknesses

After

You have a choice of background

quite

and page display

Lights, camera, action! Your name

Once you've compiled the compo

Overall,

the program is very well done and takes little effort to master. The docu

appears on the director's chair, and

mentation is clear, concise, and easy

you view the scenery selections. You

to follow.

additional

can choose from three cave scenes,

choices. This menu contains the cut-

three haunted mansion scenes (with a

are excellent examples of computer

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graveyard, of course), and three forest

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scenes. And if you've secretly yearned to do a remake of Cleopatra, there's a

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REVIEWED BY JACK EMBERI.Y

Kermit's Electronic Storymaker Computer: Commodore 64

Kermit's

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Electronic

IZM) Avenue of the Americas

Storymaker

New York, NY 10020 Medium:

Book and Disk

Price:

S29.95

gives children an opportu

JLanya, my kindergarten friend,

nity to master

doesn't know the names of all the let ters. Nevertheless, with help from the computer

and

Kermtt 's

20 different

Electronic

Storymaker, she learned the meaning

sentence

of "words," composed a story about

constructions.

Sennit, and then "read" it back to me. This pre-schooler was learning

the bastes of reading before grade one. Hermit's Electronic Storymaker is ;i composition exercise that requires children to lit words and phrases into

grammatically correct sentences, hs main instructional focus is the Im

mensely important, yet often unaddressed, language development in

responding illustrations of Kermit and

better take a look at this. of 5H

the other Muppets will then appear.

group, who better to explain the mys

words and phrases about Muppets and

The child continues to choose words

teries of tile printed word than Kermit

the things they do. Eighteen of the

in this manner until the story is com

the Frog of Muppet fame?

words

plete. At that point, the child may go

children ages three to six, And for that

The

book

are

is

a

action

dictionary

verbs

such

as

"swims," "flics," and "bounces." An

on to a new set of blank lines and a

children because, like Carl Sagan, he

other

new and more complex sentence pat

teaches and amuses at the same time,

such as "while" and "as." Together

tern, or pause and experiment with

in Kermit's Electronic Storymaker, the subjeel is "syntax," the meaning

with

the sentence and scene just created.

The

Upon completion of our first story,

ful arrangement of words within sen

book familiarizes the child with the

Tanya and 1 watched as Kermit flew

tences.

vocabulary and sentence patterns he

"in the cave." Tanya saw for herself

Kermit is a friend and mentor of

I;or

standing

small

the

children,

variety

of

under

sentence

patterns in speech, and later in books,

group

nouns

building

contains

these

blocks

conjunctions

words

form

of sentences.

the

or she may later employ in their own

the meaning of each word or phrase,

compositions.

and understood how and why they fit in a printed sentence. Mostly, though,

is often as difficult as unlocking the

After you boot the program, four

meaning of ihc Cosmos. What makes

control symbols appear at the top of

the process so frustrating is the ab-

the screen: a joystick, disk, and two

stracL nature of words. To a fivc-ycar-

musical notes. Aiming a small arrow

okl, the question is still, "What is a

at these symbols activates the move

herself by

word?"

ment of the Muppet characters, the

down, left or right. She was delighted.

she simply enjoyed the show. Later,

Tanya

used

the

command

mode to direct Kermit's movements moving

the joystick

up.

Hermit's F.h>ctrotlic Storymaker is

saving of stories for later recall, and

In the world of small children, where

a solution. Pirsi, it "shows" children

musical accompaniment. Below these

all

words

and

are solid blank lines which represent

adults, such moments of freedom are

sounds. Second, it demonstrates how

the first of many sentence patterns.

the building blocks of self-confidence.

words fit

into new and unexplored

Presented in this "template" fashion,

So great

sentence patterns. Kennit's Electronic

these lines are the function slots of a

once, as Kermii danced joyfully on

Storymaker gives children an oppor

grammatically correct sentence.

bustling city streets. Tanya frettingly

by

employing

images

power

and

was

decision

her

rests

involvement

with

that

tunity to master 20 different sentence

To begin, point the arrow at the

steered him away from traffic. "I've

constructions. Grade six teachers who

first position, which in this case is the

got to steer tiim over here," she ex-

though! sentence variety was extinct

subject position. The words and cor

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My Imagination was also busy. As

Tanya moved Kermli about, I thought of questions to help expand her grasp of spatial concepts, those perceptual

was occurring.

"Which line do we

coordinating the

appropriate visual

and more and more frequently her re

image :intl wording, Kermit's Elec tronic Storymaker provides a bridge from hearing and understanding new sentence patterns, to composing and

sponses were correct.

reading them.

use for Kermit or his friends?" I in

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For

gremlins that sometimes result in re

example,

the

following sen

Tanya was certainly entertained by

versed letters such as "b" and "d,"

tence appeared on the screen: Kermil

Kennil s Electronic Storymaker, but I

"m" and "w." "Let's see il" you can

swims under the sea. Tanya "read" this to me, but how was she able to

think she also appreciated it for what

decode the words accurately and in

able,

correct sequence?

chosen

through watching Tanya learn about

Kermit to be the subject of her story.

language. How much was she actually

make him dance in the lop right hand

corner," I suggested. And then, "How about the bottom?" or, "To the left corner." hi similar fashion.

I asked other

so

therefore,

She had

the

word

"Kcrmit"

it taught her. I, too, found it enjoy but

my

learning?

I

greatest

assessed

thrill

her

came

growing

would logically begin her sentence.

awareness by having her point to the

comprehension, and test her emerg

Reinforcing lhat assumption was the

line where the character word will be

ing awareness of how spoken words

Illustration of Kermit swimming un

entered, or 10 the line that will tell

and the texi paralleled one another.

der the sea. In "telling" me a story

where he will dance or swim. Tanya's

Step one was ;t question to determine

like this one, her mxstcry of oral lan

correct responses indicated she was

if she knew what was meant by a

guage and its rules told her to begin

beginning to master the written code

"word." She did, and proved she rec

with the subject and follow with a

she would one day use in her own

ognized the physical boundaries of

VCtb. Thus, she correctly anticipated

writing.

words

the same pattern in text. The simulta

questions

by

to

enhance Tanya's story

counting

those

in

her

neous

sentence.

Next, I asked her to point to indi

on-going

visual

images

con

How much understanding of lan guage Tanya brought to this program

firmed her assumptions.

and how much she learned from its

use is difficult to determine. Without

character in the story, the action he

All these clues helped Tanya underBtand the workings of more complex

was engaged in. and where the action

and unfamiliar sentence patterns. l)y

vidual

words

which

depicted

the

a doubt, however, many aspects of its presentation assisted Tanya in her as

sociation

of

speech

with

text.

It

would require much more space to

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these ornate illustrations fill the left

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played

Infocom's Spell-

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the magical world of Zork's Great Un derground Kmpire, Spellbreaker was

them, collect yourself a copy of Nine

style challenge

Princes ofAmber, Telarium's (Spinna

ium's early adventures (which have

Zork III and co-wrote Enchanter, the

ker) adaptation of a fantasy novel by

since

series'

Roger Zelazny, In a first tor adventure

versions of Dragon world. Fahrenheit

Blank. It commences in the midst of a

gaming, virtually till the problems are

451 and Rendezvous with Roma). it's

clamorous meeting of the top En

solved by talking to and Outwitting

a visual problem thai defies you to fit

chanters from

people—not fumbling with key.s and coins and ropes. As a member of the

pieces of a puzzle together by typing

They're debating what to do about an

in commands. There's also an all-text

inexplicable phenomenon: Their

royal family in the mystical land of

swordfight sequence that

kicks in

magic spells either aren't working or

Amber, you're ensnared In a deadly

when you choose to fight instead of

completely backfire, and the resulting

Struggle for the throne with your

talk.

chaos threatens lo destroy the world

eight brothers and three sisters, while your lather, King Obcron, is away.

like those

been removed

in Telar-

from the new

Tile music and sound effects are

wriiten

by Dave first

of Zork.

Lebling,

installment,

At

around

the height

who

with

the

did

Marc

land.

of one

lin-

outstanding in this and another note

chanter's speech, the gathering of ma

them to

worthy Telarium title. Perry Mason:

gicians is turned into newts, frogs,

back you in a plot to oust the vicious

The Case of the Mandarin Murder

and lizards by a shadowy figure whom

Prince Erik; therefore, Amber's prob

(reviewed in depth this issue). Mason

you must track down and vanquish.

lems focus on negotiating with your

incorporates

siblings

scheme and also emphasizes charac

head Mountains to the nest of a giant

command in ibis effort is a vast vo

ter interaction as you assume the role

roc, through

cabulary of unusual verbs. You can

of the famous lawyer who must save

where it monstrous snake blocks your

Hatter, placate, propose, nod, spit,

his client from a murder rap. Most of

path, to the enigmatic Octagon room

confess, picad. negotiate, bargain, or

the game is staged in court, where

and beyond. You're armed with a

choose from numerous other words

you can cross-examine witnesses, in

spell book containing familiar spells

implemented especially for this in

troduce evidence, and even object to

like rezrov and frotz. Numerous new

tense brand of character interaction. The game also packs an array of

the district attorney's line of ques

spells—jindak to detect magic, blor-

tioning, Success hinges on shrewdly utilizing your staff of two. Paul Drake

ple to explore an object's mystic con

prepositions

(all listed In the manual), making it

is a private eye who will dash out and

Outside the Guild Hall, you find a

the most articulate of the Telarium

investigate anyone or anything you

strange white cube that, if biorplcd,

adventures.

say. then report back to you in court.

transports you

Delia Street is a legal assistant who

where you'll find several other rooms

just one successful ending, the other

will call potential witnesses, summa

and puzzles,

"conclusions"

rize the most recent testimony, and

traveling about is similar to the way

You've got

nouns,

to

to convince

form

adjectives,

alliances.

and

At

your

Adventure games typically have consisting

of diverse

ways to die along the way. Amber. however, has lour successful conclu

a

similar graphics

suggest effective questions to ask. The game ends when the jury an

The trip takes you across the Flatcyclopean stone ruins

nection;*—soon turn up.

to another location

(This mechanism for

the Improbability drive was used in Hitchhiker's Guide.) Other cubes

sions. The optimal .solution is to be

nounces a verdict. As in Amber, sev

must be retrieved from ogres,

crowned King of Amber; the others

eral possible endings exist, including

mits, and other characters; each tele-

reflect

one

murderer

ports you to a new area. With a top

(You'll still find plenty of ways to get

breaks down and confesses on the

score of 600 points, this is an ex-

killed.)

witness stand, just like in the TV'

Continwd'on pg. 121

various

degrees

Because

of success.

your interactions

in

which

the

real

her

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Sale ii7

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Cl 28 RGB/Composite 80 column cable $19.95.

Resolution

13" RGB & COMPOSITE COLOR MONITOR Allows use of C-128 and C64 mode - composite and 80 column RGB mode. Must be used to get 80 columns In color with 80 column

computers. Specially designed for use with the C128's special composite

video output, plus green shipping)

screen only oplion switch, (add $14.50

List $399.00

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12" MAGNAVOX (NAP) 80 COLUMN MONITOR Super high resolution composite green screen monitor. 80 columns x Fantastic value. Limited Quanfitles.

259 95

Sale $7995

List $129.00

24 lines, easy to read, plus spogker for audio sound included.

$15995

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Turn Your Monitor into a TV Set Without Moving Your Computer Flpnnnr i r . . • with ... i !• dual • I,.., I UHF/VHF . 11 . . ■ ■ i I p selector , , I .,-inr BinllA>i. Elegonl TV TV Ti Tuner switches

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FLOPPY DISKS SALE *59* Economy Model or €-128 Cadillac Quality We liaise the lowest prices! "ECONOMY DISKS

For use with Commodore 64

Atari, Apple.

Good quality 5W single sided double density with hub rings. Bulk Pac

100 Q»y. 10 Qiy.

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Total Price Total Price

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C-128 Computer Disks ik CADILLAC QUALITY {Double Sided, Double Density)

Specifically designed for use with C-128

• Each disk certified

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• Works with IBM PC

For those who want codillac quality we have the C-128 Floppy Disk. Used by professionals because they can rely on C-128 Disks to store

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exclusive FREE REPLACEMENT LIFETIME WARRANTY. With C-128 disks you can have the peoce of mind without the frustration of program loss after hours spent in program development.

100% CERTIFICATION TEST Some floppy disk manufactures anly sample lest on a batch basis the disks Ihey sell, and then claim they are certified. Each C-123 disk Is

individually checked so you will never experience data or program loss during your llfelime!

FREE REPLACEMENT LIFETIME WARRANTY We are so sure of C-128 Disks that we give you a free replacement warranty against failure to perform due to faulty materials or

workmanship for as long as you own your C-l 28 disk.

AUTOMATIC DUST REMOVER Just like a record needle, disk drive heads must travel hundreds of miles over disk surfaces. Unlike olher floppy disks the C-128 smooth surfoce finish saves disk drive head wear during the life of the disk. (A rough surface will grind your disk drive head like sandpaper). The lint free automatic CLEANING LINER makes sure the disk-killers (dust & dirt) are being constontly cleaned while the disk is being operated.

C-128 Disks are definitely the Cadillac disk in the world Just to prove it even further, we are offering these super LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICES

1 Box of 10 - $9.90 (99' ea.)

5 Boxes of 10 - $44.50 (89* ea.)

10 Boxes of 10 - $79.00 (79* ea.)

All disks come with hub rings and sleeves in on attractive package.

Make Your 1985 Income Tax Report Easy! This program includes:

• An easy to use menu-driven program that will enable you to prepare and complete your Federal income tax returns, yet requires no prior knowledge of computers or accounting.

• A CPA-tested manual, written in easy-to-understand, people-friendly English, abundantly illustrated to help make tax preparation and tax law understandable.

• Full prompting — you will be guided through the tax preparation process by thoughtful, easily-understood instructions (prompts) from your computer display screen.

• Password protection — To prevent unauthorized access to your confidential data. • A Special Backup Feature — which quickly generates extra backup copies of your recorded information to guard against the loss of important dato.

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Commodore 64

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List $99.00

List $99.00

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• 300 Baud Modem • Auto Dial • Auto Answer • Upload & Download Reach Out and Access Someone • Educational courses • Financlollnformation

* News Updates and Information • Popular Games

• Banking at Home

■ Electronic Shopping

' Research and Reference Materials

The Complete Telecommunications Package offers you all this plus ... ■ Aulo Log-on

* Stores on Disk Downloaded Files

■ On-line Clock

' Select Any Protocol (access almost any computer or modem)

• Dialing from Keyboard

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Commodore 64

VOICE COMMAND

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Voice Recognition

The Voice Command Module is o speeth recognition device that lets you give commands to your Commodore-64 with your voice instead of a keyboard. This unit converts the sound waves generated when you talk into digital data that is stored in the computer memory. When you speak to your computer, the words you speak are matched against the daia stored in memory and tho result is converted to an instruction for the computer to

perform. This is perfect for programmers and first time users alike. Six programs are included to help you get acquainted with the world of speech recognition.

SOS — Speech Operating System — This is the generol ulilily program which helps you to build a speech file made up of a set of words. Card File Program — This is a data base much like an index card file

which you can control with your voice. You can store recipes, addresses, phone numbers or any kind of information you need to have filed. Up to 100 files may be kepi on a single disk. Aeronaut Came — This gome challenges you to land o hot air balloon on

5 different landing pads without crashing into anything or running out of fuel. The balloons altitude is controlled by your voice which adds or removes hot air from the balloon.

Word Mix Puzzle — Here you must match words much like Concentration.

If you guess correctly you win. No hands on the keyboard are needed since the speech recognition unit does the keyboard work from your voice. Speech Graphic! — Demonstrates how the voice command module

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works. Here you can graphically see what your speech looks like on the

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screen.

Demo Program — This is a simpler version of the Aeronaut game that

shows you how a simple program is made when listed.

PLUS: You get eosy to use instructions for making your own programs in BASIC or machine language using the voice command module.

All Six Programs Included FREE

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List $79.95

S34 95

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VOICE SYNTHESIZER MAKE YOUR COMPUTER TALK

VOICE SYNTHESIZER — You can program any words or sentences • Adjust volume and pitch • Receive Modem messages • Make adventure games that talk • Reol sound action games • Make customized talkies • Plugs into cartridge port

Plus FREE Text to Speech Software. (See Below) List $89.00. Sale S39.95.

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$69 KEYBOARD $69 THE COMMODORE PIANO MUSICAL KEYBOARD

Keyboard — 40 Keys (A-C) in professional gauge spring loaded to give the feel and response of a real keyboard instrument. Polyphonic.

Registers (with the Conductor) — Organ, Trumpet. Flute, Clarinet, Piano, Horpsicord, Violin, Cello, Bass,

Banjo, Mandolin, Calliope, Concertino, Bagpipe, Synthesizer 1. Synthesizer 2. Clavier 1, Clavier 2. which can be

played over a 7 ocfave range. Programmable sounds as well.

Recording (with the Conductor) — Three track sequencer (recorder) with over-dubbing and multitimbral (different instrument sounds at the same lime) effects.

Interface — Built in interface for Commodore 64, Commodore 128, plugs right in to joystick port no. 2 ond user port.

Finish — Toble Model in white high-impact material, with carrying handle, protective key cover, and built in music stand. Si7e29 )/8x 9 9/16 x 3-11/16, weighs 9 pounds.

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The Conductor loaches how a composition is put together, note by note, instrument by instrument. You loarn to play 35 pre-recorded songs from

Both to Rock. Then you con compose your own songs and record them righl onlo your floppy disk.

Teaches:

Recording Function!:

■ 5cates

• Monitor: Leis you use □ track to ploy music live, without recording it.

• Bass lines • Familior Beginner Songs such

• Record: Records a track os you

as Jingle Bells"

ploy.

• Easy classical songs such as

• Playback: Lets you hear whatever has been recorded or loaded inlo the track. You may playback one Track white recording another to build

"Boch Minuol" and Ravel's "Bolero" • Advanced classics like "A Mid

summer's Night Dream" by

Mendelssohn • Popular hits such as "Thriller"

layers of instruments.

• Mute: Turns a trock oft. This is useful when you wanl to listen to a record one or two Tracks at

Crealo New Instrument Sounds • Choose Irom pulse, sawtooth,

triangle and noise and sound

□ time.

sources.

• Save: Slores a track to the disk.

■ Control the sound envelope with attack, delay, suslain and release times, • Ring Modulation ond 5yncroniiation effects.

• Load; Loads a track from disk, • Protect: Write protects o track. The Conductor Roqulrei: •

ListS29.95

high pass filter frequencies.

The Printed Song Requlrei: • Commodore 64 or Commodore 12B wilh disk drive and printer compatible with the Commodore graphics mode such os the Commodore MPS 003, 1515, and 1525.* The Conductor program.

The Music Teacher Software

List $39 95 Sale S29.95 The Music Teacher teaches o beginner how to read music ond play it Corrocily and in rhythm on the musical keyboard.

The Music Teacher will hove you reading ond ploying musical noles in minutes with fun ond excitement.

Featurei: • Trumpet, orgon, violin, ond synthesiser instrument sounds. • Built in metronome. • Pause/Play control. ■ Set-up menu (or customizing The Music Teacher,

Teaches: • How to road notes on the treble and boss musical staffs. • The names of the notes. • Where the notes are on the keyboard. • How to play whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes and sixteenth notes in combinations In both 3/4 ond 4'4 time. • How to ploy in different tempos.

Requirei: • Commodore 64 or Commodore 128 with disk drive, • The Commodore Piano Musical Keyboard

Commodore 64 or Commodore The Commodore Piano Musical

Keyboard is required to study the reading and ploying of musical noles.

Sale $19.95

With the Printed Song program your music can be printed out in music notation, which other musicians con read and play. Any music recorded with the Conductor program can be printed by (ho Printed Song.

The Technician

128 with disk drive.

• Set Low pass, band poss, and

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Programs for the Intelligent Pro Boxing — All the realism of being in the ring. Play head to head with another person or against the computer at any

of 15 skill levels. Also includes a 3 round demo bout to prepare you to "put on the gloves". Control your boxer's every punch and movement with your joystick. Get ready for a figh! to fhe finish. (Disk) List S9.95. Sale S8.95. Hole in One Golf — Welcome to the Fairport Country Club

where you will be ploying on the world famous North Course.

Just step up to the tee, select your club, line up your shot and hit away, Hole in One Golf is an authentic golf simulation. It provides complete control over club selection, strength of swing, top-spin or bock-spin, even hook or slice! The course is a

challenging layout of trees, rough, sand and water traps. If you don't like the course, change it!

Use the Course Creator to

design and build an unlimited number of courses. Select from over 200 different combinations of fairway, trees, bunkers and

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International Hockey — The excitement of cold steel on ice continues with this sensational sequel to the best selling "Slapshot Hockey". Get

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ready for a real challenge because this is defensive hockey at it's best.

Listen to the screams of the crowd as you race for the blueline with one

man back. Prepare for tempers to flare, but beware — fighting penalties are dealt with by penalty shots being awarded to each team. Enjoy this highly competitive game with family and friends or play alone against the computer. (Disk) List $24.95. Sale S19.95.

Bridge 4.0. A critically acclaimed bridge program. You

and your

computer partner bid against two computer opponents and play out the

hand. The program reviews the bidding, keeps track of the score and tricks laken and will let you know of any illegal bid or ploy. You can replay interesting hands and you get a continual display of the computer's ond your lost move. (Disk)

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Linkword Language Series. Learn 400 words, basic pronunciation and grammar in just 10 hours. The Linkword language system mokes learning

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fast ond easy because of enjoyable teaching methods. The program is based on imagery, linking foreign words to acoustically similar English

words. Each package contains an audio tape so you can hear the correct

pronunciation of the new words you are learning. Available in Spanish, French, Italian and German (specify). (Disk) List $24,95. Sale $18.95. Coupon $15.95.

Grand Master Chess. A program with 10 skill levels, Can be enjoyed by

the beginner or challenging for the more advanced player. Among the many features of the program is the constant display of the computer and

your last move, computer ply, number of moves made and dual timer

clocks. Includes a comprehensive opening book and board, background ond border color selection. Better than Sargon II and Ml. (Disk) List $24.95.

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Crossword Magic — Creole your own crossword

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in

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any

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to

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Crossword Magic can be used again and

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The Lordi Of Midnight — The land of Midnight is controlled by Doomdark and in causing his

(all

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power is to destroy the source of his strength, The Ice Crown. Battle 32,000 panoramas

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Shadowflre — This game allows you 100 real-time minutes to rescue Ambassodor Kryxix ond demolish the enemy starship. The aliens that confront you are beyond the realm of the most

vivid imagination The pace is fast and the action intense. (Disk) List S19.95. Sola f 16.49.

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your mission

.eLusc

question, "what mokes him tick?" With 35 years of research on the theory of how psychologically revealing a person's color and shape choices can be,

todarscope ond an ability to

they draw and

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The Luicher Profile — Wouldn't it be great if you could run a personality profile on those who confuse you most? Ta understand the (raits behind the reactions of your spouse, child, parents,

top-secret

guide

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package contains fix double sided disks covering oil sections of the test. Timed exam includod. (Disk]

space exploration mission, Only the most skilled will be accepted. To qualify tests.

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Stlckybear Typing — Stlckybear mokes leorning the keyboord both easy & fun for anyone. A 3 game format provides

different leveli so that aslyping skills improve so does the level of difficulty. Stlckybear Keypress is geared to the needs of the child or the beginner, the stress is on the keyboard. To increase typing speed and accuracy the fast-paced Stlckybear Thump will provide a real challenge. Stickybear Stories allows further practice with real text for timed practice. Everything from jokes, stories ond bright amusing graphics make this one of the most delightful typing programs ever, plus you can keep track of your progress and slore on disk. (Disk) List S29.95. Sale 519.95.

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Stlckybear Spellgrabber — 3 games in one: Picture Spell

contains over 200 word/picture combinations. Word Spell

is a scramble game, players recreate words shown on the

screen. Bear Dunk Involves guessing a word to save Stickybear from a dunking, (Disk) List S29.95. Sale S19.95, Stickybear Town

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Stickybear Reading 3 fun activities that build reading

develop essential map skills as they

build

a

town

with

roods,

comprehension skills. Match The

parks, airports, bridges, etc. and

Words: Kids practice vocabulary

save on disk. That's |ust the first game. In Take A Drive,

as

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are stressed. Wilh Find The Keys,

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keys. (Disk) List $29.95. Sale 119.95.

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picture

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Stickybear Math — Kids learn math skills as they help the Stickybeor Family out of sticky jams. For every set of addition and subtraction problems youngsters get right, Stickybear gets a slep closer to getting out of the jam. (Disk) List 529.95. Sale $19.95.

match

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word

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in

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sentence

into animated action. Build A Sentence: Children choose a subject, a verb ond an object,

mystery

then

watch

them

turn

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Fait Load Cartridge — Intnl. save

and copy disks five times (aster than normal. It plugs into the cartridge

port ot the Commodore 64 and goes

to work automatically loading disks with ease. And thot's only the beginning. It can copy o single tile, copy the whole disk, send disk commands, and oven list directories without erasing programs stored in memory. (Cartridge). List S39.95.

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Arcade Games Around Rescuo On Fractalui! — Your mission is to fly your Valkyrie Fighter through the Jaggi defenses and rescue the downed Ethercorps pilots. Sounds easy, bu! don't let il fool you. It's tough enough just to navigate the mountains and

canyons of Fractalus,

but

try doing

it while destroying

enemy gun emplacements or dodging suicide saucers. We

Jot Combat Flight Simulator Flight simulation programs ore the most requested in the country. The key to

a good one is reolism. the sensation of being in the cockpit — guiding the plane through take-offs, londings and air to air —■ air to ground combat. You are an Air Force pilot and your mission is critical. Your success in completing your

supply the Long Range Sconner, Diroc Mirror Shield and Anti-Matter Bubble Torpedoes ... YOU supply the skill and guts! One Player. {Disk) List $29.95. Sale S20.95.

orders depends on how quickly ond accurately you react.

The Eidolon — The Eidolon is an oncient time machine that

transports you to an unusual world. It allows you control

Summer Games II — The original Summer Games was last Summer's No. 1 seller. Carry on the tradition with another

change the flow of time. (Disk) List S39.95. Sale J20.95.

with 8 new Olympic events including Kayaking, cycling,

The World1* Greatest Football Game — This one has it

The excitement of Olympic competion is present in this new

over the sironge creatures you encounter. You may even

all — strategy, action, three views of the field. It's in a class

oil its own! Finally, a football gome that not only puts you on the field, but also on the sidelines in the coach's shoes. Use the

"Playbook"

or

design your own offensive

and

defensive plays. Then, grab the joystick and put your strategy to the test. You control key players to run a sweep, make a tackle, fhrow o pass and even kick a fieldgoal. All the action and all the strategy make this your favorite

football game. (Disk) List S39.95. Sale S23.95. Winter Games — Experience the challenge of six winter

sporting events. In the Bobsled, you're right in the tube careening olong the walls. At the SkiJump. you control your form in take-off,

flight

and

landing.

In

Figure

Skating,

timing counts for the transitions, the jumps and landings.

Choreograph your own routine in Free Style Skating. Hot Dog Aerials push your agility to new heights. The Biathlon

challenges your endurance in cross-country skiing. There's even

an

opening

ceremony,

anthems. One to Eight Players.

complete

with

national

(Disk) List S39.95. Sale $20.95.

Very intense — Fantastic Graphics, animation and control elements. (Disk) list S39.95. Sale M0.95.

chance to "Go for the Gold!" Introducing Summer Games II fencing, diving, track fi field, gymnastics and equestrian.

version as it was in the original. Great graphics ond sound effects. This one's a winner! (1 to 8 players). (Disk) List $39.95. Salt; 520.95.

Koronli Rift — The setting is o remote planet surrounded by radiation. To discover the secrets of the Ancients you must battle olien guards. For protection you must obtain weapons from the ruins of interplanetary civilization. (Disk) lr,i$39.95. Sale $20.95.

Ballblazer — Unique split-screen. 3-D graphics give you

ond your opponent o first person view of the field of play. You race across the playfield in your Rotofoil trying to capture the boll and fire it through the goal before your opponent. The winner is the player with the most points at

the end of the timed competition. Hold onto your joystick and keep thot finger on the fire button, this is the type of two player head-to-head action you've been waiting for. Two Players. (Disk) List S29.95. Sale S20.95.

Super Graphics

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Buy any one of these Electronics Arts classics, get another from this list Fr&el* • Dr. J 8 Larry Bird Go One-on-One • Financial Cookbook • Music Constr, Set • Pinbali Consir. 5ei • Seven Cities of Gold * Movie Maker ■ M.U.I,E. * Moil Order Monsiers •

Racinq Destruction Set

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Carriers At War — Recreate five crucial battles of WWII, or make up

your own. Play the role of the great

leaders such os MacArthur, Halsey and Yama-moto. There are 7 built-in battles such as Pearl Harbor and Midway and you must face the same challenges thot orose in the original

battles. Accurate battle conditions, including intelligence reports, speed of movement and fatigue levels. (Disk) List 542.95. Sale S32.9S.

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Ablaze

program

commander

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air

force.

speed. The geography and weather Design your own scenario to keep

the ploy exciting. Will you change the course of history? (Disk) List S42.95. Sale $34.95.

Super Baulderdash — The exciting sequel to one of the most action pocked strategy games ever. With

incredibly

animation

A

you

conditions are historically accurate.

realistic flight simulation program. You ore fighting to protect your home base with five kinds of weapons and working gauges. The high

speed

Planning the bombing missions, plotting the course and setting the

Slcy Fox — Fly the unfriendly

skies

Thoie 9 imat only

16 new maze levels, so complex and

challenging

that

you

will

soon

become a fan. The original was an

award winner with characters like

Ihe enchanted wall and the boulders

and

breathtaking graphics are up to arcade standards. Features

that fall when you least expect it.

scenarios,

time

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5 skill levels and 15 different

caves while gathering jewels, ali Ihe

different strategy. This best selling game is a sure winner

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Enjoy football all year long with this fast action program that brings all the elements of the game to your home computer. It's

exiting sequel to "The Seven Cities Of Gold" has you

great graphics and sound thot put you on the turf with the NFL all stars. 100's of

cannibals, slave traders, hunger and wild animals, to name a few. Historically and

and defensive learns, plus the ability to play a game against another fan or the

you

□ II

here,

the

realism

exploring the Dark Continent in the 1890's. Your mission is

to

the lost temple of

geographically

ploys for both the offensive

of the vehicle of your choice,

car

two

or selecl from an endless supply of built-in pictures. After you're finished, save your creations on disk. Up to

slicks and weapons and have

10 built-in movies to let your

hairpin turns. (Disk) ListS29.95. Sale 522.95.

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Destruction

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Put yourself behind the wheel

build the racetrack and add the obstacles. Then prepare for the race of your life. This split-screen, computer slot

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players. You'll encounter oil

six characters per movie and

to be on guard for ice, and

imagination run wild. (Disk)

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Movie Maker — Create your own animated movies complete with sound effects.

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Construction Set By Matthew Leeds

The title floats in space, rotating on three axes. When it reaches midpoint in one rotation, it changes into o different title. The credits float up from off camera, and then an eight-point grid pattern wipes across the screen to show the first picture, a house in the suburbs. We zoom into the house, in steps. Then another wipe, this

time from the side, shows a different house. We pull back (reverse zoom) until the house becomes a point on the horizon. It then fades and a logo comes up onscreen, zooms, splits, and fades through the color spectrum to black.

This new "video processor" for the Amiga from Electronic Arts can be used to create professional-quality, customized home videos, business presentations, pointof-purchase displays, animated commercials, and just about anything

else you can think of.

This is not a description of a prime-time real estate ad, or the opening of a feature film. It is one of the demos that will be on the Deluxe Video Construction

Set from Electronic Arts, the graphics package for the Amiga ttiat lets you make computer-generated videos just like the big boys do. DVCS enables you to take images from a variety of sources and combine them into a single computer-

generated output. Pictures from EA's Deluxe Point, images from the Amiga frame grabber, music from Deluxe Music Construction Set and other programs can be used to create custom home videos. Animations, titles, business presentations,

and special effects suddenly are in reach of the home and small-business market. DVCS consists of two disks. The Maker/Player disk lets you create a video and play it back. The Player disk, on the other hand, will only play a video. The Player

disk is unprotected, and must be copied to any disk that contains a video you've created. This allows you to give away copies of the videos you design, and to create free-standing videos that can be enjoyed by anyone who owns an Amiga. This is such a visually oriented program that It is difficult to describe how it works using only words. One image that comes to mind is that of a graphics "spread sheet," with each event in the video on a separate row, stacked in layers. Another is that of a film-cutting bench, with pieces of scenes to be cut and pasted into place.

The starting point is a blank slate, called a script. On to this script are layered tracks. There are five types of tracks: Video, Background, Foreground, Control, and Music. On to each type of track you place Effects. Time runs from left to right across the tracks, and the time for an Effect to occur is controlled by the two arrows attached to its box. These arrows are movable, so you can set the time an Effect starts and ends. Each Effect has its own requester [controller]. For instance, the 66

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wipe Effect requester has several options: up, down, left, right, diagonal, grow from a point, break up in horizontal positions. The sound Effect requester controls the sounds using slider controls. Stereo movement [pan], pitch of sound [rate], and volume, are some of the changes that can be made to the library of sounds included in DVCS. There are a great number of other Effects that can be used as well. For instance, there are requesters for size, appear, disappear, move, fade, strobe, rotate, animate, and a variety of other Effects.

Background tracks are full-screen pictures. They may be created using a paint program like Deluxe Paint, or the Amiga frame grabber. Backgrounds are brought on using an "appear" Effect, and con be manipulated using various wipes or other Effects, Foreground tracks control objects ot less than full-screen size. There are quite a few Effects available, as well, for the control of objects. Music tracks are mostly self explanatory. DVCS will accept music from most Amiga music programs, or if you are going to record your video on a VCR you can

dub music from any source onto the tape. Since this is a preview of a program that was still under development at the time

this article was written, some features were still being worked on. Without going into great detail on each, however, let's look at some of the other features in DVCS. But keep in mind that this is not meant to be a complete list of all the functions that are in the finished product. DVCS con display eight colors in the background, and eight in the foreground.

Controls for modifying the colors allow you to change the red, green, and blue component of any color on the screen using slider controls. Several sets of pleasing color combinations are included, and you may create and store your own, as well. There is full support for the system fonts, or additional fonts created later, and a custom font known as Polygon Text, used for larger text displays and text rotations. The program will recognize a second disk drive, for additional data storage, and plans are under way for support of hard disks and RAM disks. Templates for exploding pie charts, bar charts, slide shows, and scrolling titles, are included in the

final release, as well as several full-length demo videos. Finished videos can be set to keep repeating, or to branch off and call other videos. Full access to the Amiga Workbench is also supported.

An animation tool, called Framer is also included in DVCS. This allows you to assemble various objects into step animation sequences. DVCS also accepts

animation sequences from other animation programs, as long as they adhere to the IFF standard.

What can you use DWJS for? To start, it makes great title sequences for home videos. It also can be used for business presentations, stand-alone point-of-purchase displays, self-running demos, electronic message boards, low cost animated TV commercials, nip charts, animated storyboards, and slide shows. Since it can be set to respond to keyboard commands, it could be used to create simple interactive

video teaching programs. Think of it as programming language for graphics on the Amiga, or as a videoprocessor—a llword processor" for images that outputs video

instead of text. Imagine CD-ROM based libraries of clip art, animation sequences, and sound effects for DVCS. Imagine a new kind of desktop publishing revolution, 68

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YOUR DIRECT LINE TO THE WORLD by Diane LeBold, Editor

It's finally happening. Now you can get news (Including

X'PRLSS, consumers get to see only about 20",

of the

news direct from the Soviet 1 nion and People's Republic of

enormous amount of news and information thai travels the

China), stocks, sports, entertainment, weather, book and movie reviews, and more — up to the minute, liot off the

international airwaves every day. With XTRESS, however, you can get information direct from 3000 news sources

wire — Information that would cost you up to 120 an hour

around tile world—so you aren't limited to just die usual I/PI

on business-oriented telecommunications services.

and AP stories. It's a real education, for instance, to ami the

Hut there's no modem, no phone, no connect charges.

news that comes through on Xinhua (People's Republic of

And, at 9600 baud—a (.Una transfer rate that's far quicker

China), and then compare It to die same story as It comes In

than anytiling you've seen so far for your Commodore com

onUPI.

puter — there are no long waits, either.

You can also monitor up to 16 stocks at a time—and be

All you need is your Commodore 64, 128, or Plus/<f, an

only i5 minutes behind what's actually happening on the

inexpensive cartridge ;md — here's the trick — your cable TV connection. The only cost, once you have the cartridge,

get the score on that Sixers-Critics game just minutes after it

is a low monthly fee — around s 19,95, depending on your

local coble company.

It's Available Now

floor of [he exchange. Or check the latest price of copper Or

happens. Or check die ski conditions in Aspen before you make the trip. It's still 81955 a month, no matter how much you use it—which for many people will seem like something short of a miracle, considering that a stock-monitoring ser

It's called X'PRESS, it's available now in over 20 metro politan areas in the US. and Canada, and will eventually be

available wherever there's cable. So if you need your infor mation while it's still warm and kicking, this Is where you can get it for virtually pennies, Even if you're just an interest

ed bystander who likes to keep up with current events.

vice alone can cost up to S20 ;in hour on traditional net works.

What X*PRESS Is Doing

Every minute of every day, news and Information services

in even' nook and cranny around the world are transmitting

X*PRESS gives you access to die kind of information you

.i" kinds of information. The information is put on a kind of

never get to see in the traditional media — for about the

enormous electronic carousel, where it keeps cycling—old stories eventually dropping off, new being constantly add

same money you'd spend on a daily New York limes or Wall

Street Journal and a few magazines each month. For Instance, how many of your friends can nine directly into oi'KCNA, the newsservice of the outproducing nations of tile world—or TASS. the Soviet news service—and gel

ed—2-i hours a day.

Newspapers, TV networks, and other traditional media pull information off the carousel as it Speeds by, decide which of it they want to use, edit it, and get it out the door as

information "in the raw" as it comes over the wires? Some of

fast as the;' can, I5ut, because- of the constraints of time,

that information may appear in a few hours—or maybe

space, and money, only a small amount of the total available

tomorrow—on TV or in the newspapers. Most of it will

information ever reaches die general public. And, of course.

never even hit tiic streets.

there Ls a significant time delay between the original tr;ins-

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cast or printed.

Information Display, get into the baseball section, and, what

JPPHESS, in short, lets you bypass ihese middlemai and pull stork-s off die carousel yourself. You select die kinds of stories you want X"PRESS to grab, from among six main categories—News, Weather. Sports, Business and Finance, Entertainment, and Features—and you narrow down your selections using sub-menus within each i >i die main categor ies. For Instance, from within die Sports category, you might want «> monitor only basketball stories Or you might want weather in only Pennsylvania. Eventually you may also be able to pull in local Information, as well, which will be

do you know, die first diing you see is a story about how

transmitted by your local cable company

menu and enter die ticker abbreviations lor the relevant companies. X'PRliSS goes to work Instantly, and in a few

Once X'1'RI-SS stoics die information in the computer's

miserably die Phib> are getting whupped in Chicago, If your memory is lull and you want lo make room to

store more stories, you can prim diis Story out on paper and then delete it. Or simply delete it witlioul printing it.

X'FRiiss will immediately stari watching for more Informa tion from your selected categories and catch it on die fly. Let's get serious for a minute and suppose you're interest

ed in watching several stocks you've Invested in. In this case, choose die Market Monitor Setup option Irom the main

memory, you can search through it using ke) words or com binations of keywords You can throw out tin: articles you

minutes you can view the bid and ask prices, die high, low

don't want to keep and print out die ones you do. Its ;dl copyrighted material, so you Cant distribute exact copies of

your selectioas. In addition, you can see at a glance how die prices tor die last eight transactions have fluctuated (up,

the information to anyone else, but you can use that infor

down or same). 'Ihis inlonnation will always be no more

mation for any other purpose.

than 20 to 25 minutes old, and dial's a "worst ease" situation.

HowYouUseX*PRESS

llicrc's nothing hard about using X'PRESS—no phone numbers to dial, no secret passwords, account numbers, or

protocols to learn, Jusi plug an JCPRES5 cartridge into your

and last prices, and the number ol transactions for each of

And If You're Really Attached to Your Modem

Next year, X't'RILSS pinna to have .i feature dial will make

special connector, and fire up the computer. Vbila, there's

your modem a handy appendage, after all, Say, for instance. that you want to read die latest leviews of new Ixwiks on die

X'PRIffiS on-screen, ready lo go. You don't even have to own

market. X'l'REss will not only give you those reviews, it will

a disk drive to use it—although a drive can be handy It's

also give you an opportunity to buy die Ixioks—via your

completely menu-driven, with a simple manual and handy help screens. You can't crash it. and even if you did, ii

modem. You'll Just press a key to go into communication mode, and your modem will autodial a local Telenet phone-

wouldn't matier. because you call just st;irt over without

number. There you'll be prompted to enter ordering infor

incurring any extra charges, and any data you might have

mation tor die item you w;int to buy.

computer, plug your cable TV line into die cartridge using a

lost as a result can easily l>c re-captured. I-ct's take a brief tour lo help you gel a feel for what you

can do with X"PRESS. PcOm the Main Menu, go lirsl to Category Selection. This is where yon icll 3CPRESS what kinds of information you want ii to grab oil ihc carousel. II

The Future of X*PRESS

after you read tins, an Amiga version ot JPPRESS will probably be available. The wonder ol diis version is that it will let you run X'PRESS in die background, while you use

you plan to keep monitoring die same categories over and

your .Amiga for odier diings.

over, you can save your selections to disk, so they become

instance. Ix: writing a report on current event-s. and l>c able

Ihat means you could, lor

the default categories when you load die program. Qfou can.

to talk about events that arc taking pl.ice at die very moment

of course, change diesc defaults at any time.) Or you can

you're writing die rcjxjrt. Iliat's about as current as anyone

choose new categories each time you load X'I'KhSS and

could hupc lor.

change them whenever you like.

In addition, you can anticipate thai cable companies will

After you select the main categories you \\ ant to watch—

start to offer local Information and special SO vices as soon as

say, Sports anil News—you can narrow down the tield even

the> can. And who knows, maybe someday you'll Ix1 able to

more. So, if you wont to keep tabs just on baseball and TASS. you can choose those categories from die Spirts and News

print X'PKhAS stories to disk ;md call diem up as word

sub-menus.

applications, or just save diem for future reference.

Once you've made your selections, X'PRESS immediately

starts looking for Information—hut only for those specific selections. So, for our example categories, the program

would store only die baseball stories dial whiz by, tor in

prtKCssor files, so you can adapt diem to .suit your own

How to Get REPRESS

X'l'RIiSS is presently turned on in the following cities:

stance—not any soccer stories, or track and field .stories.

Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; Nan Fhincisco and Oakland, California; Salt liike City, Utah; Madison. Wisconsin;

XTRESS will continue to pull in relevant information until

Topeka, Kansas; Summit County, Vail, and liioomfickl. Colo

your computer's memory is full—at which time it will tell

rado; Billings and Helena, Montana; Portland and Corvallis.

you it's full, and will slop storing inlorination. On the ituex-

Oregon; Ifrcmcnon and Hcllingliam, Washington; Ainster-

panded Commodore IZH you can slorc about H(l stories. On

dim, Platisburg, IJinghamton and lihaca, New York; Man

die (w, you'll get about M) to 40 stories before your memory

chester, Vermont; Baltimore County and Howard County,

Miill.

Maryland; San Antonio, Texas; Sioux hills, South Dakota; and

Now we get

to

die point of :ill

diis—reading what

X'PRliSS lias captured, Suppose, lor example, all you rcalh wanted to know aboui baseball was how die Phillies arc

doing in their game against the Cubs. From die Main Menu you select Keyword Setup and enter "Phillies." Then go 10

Toronto, Onuriu. In May. Vancouver, British Columbia, is scheduled to be turned on and in July, Wichita, Kansas. 'lo find out how to get X'l'RLSS, call your local cable company

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The Amiga's introductory Painting System by Louis R. Wallace

The first program you buy for your Amiga may well be Graphicraft. This easy-to-use drawing and painting system

Is probably one ot the most common programs found in

file prefixes to load tram subdirectories or even other disk drives.

Because there are two options for saving a picture using

Amiga software libraries, It is very good tor first-time users

the PROJECTS menu, you have a certain amount of flexibil

who may be new to computer paint packages, and allows

ity in worWng with your pictures. The SAVE option within the

you to draw in the Amiga's 32-color 320 x 200 graphics

PROJECTS menu replaces any picture with the same

mode, using pop-down menus and the two-button Amiga

name. The SAVE AS option allows you to create different

mouse. It can be used In either 256K or 512K mode.

versions of the picture without erasing the original. This

Graphlcraffs six main functions are found in menus

option also allows you to save a different disk or subdirec

available at the top of the screen. From the PROJECTS

tory by prefixing the picture name with the AmigaDOS drive

menu, you access the program's non-graphics functions,

number or directory name.

like loading and saving screens and brushes. This menu

If you are working on a picture that has already been

option also lets you clear your picture from the screen, or

saved, and you make changes that cannot be corrected by

print it out on any printer—black-only or full-color—sup

using UNDO, you can use REVERT from the PROJECTS

ported by Amiga Preferences. Since Preferences comes set

menu to cause the picture to be reloaded. This saves you a

for Epson printers and serial output, you must change the

couple of steps, and a bit of frustration.

Preferences to reflect your printer type, if it differs from these default values.

Graphicraffs SHAPES menu gives you access to the program's five basic drawing options: freehand, lines, rec

A word of warning to 256K Amiga users. Before you

tangles, fill and text. You turn off one option by selecting

print out your picture, be sure it is saved to disk. This is

another, and can change drawing colors by going to the

because after you have printed it, you will be required to

COLOR menu.

reset the Amiga and reload Graphicraft to continue paint ing. Any picture In memory will therefore be lost.

The Rectangle selection allows you to make boxes

quickly. Just choose where you want a comer to be, click

To load a previously saved picture, you can choose

the mouse and move to the location of the opposite comer.

OPEN from the PROJECTS menu, or you can simply type in

The box will grow, changing shape as you move the mouse

the picture's name. Being able to type in the name is an

(a technique called "rubber-bonding"). When you have it

important feature because it lets you use the AmlgaDOS

just the way you want it, dick the mouse again and the

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First, I roughed out the picture

using Line-Draw and Fill.

Producing VermeerGM Using Graphicraft by Shcrj'J Knowles, Senior Graphic Artist, Com mo do re-Amiga Since a computer monitor shows images of colored light, I decided to

pay tribute to a painter who was a

master Of creating the illusion of light—Johannes Vermeec. In the first stage, I set up an initial

Next, I blocked

In major areas ot light and shadow.

palette, and, using Line-Draw and Fill, roughed out the picture. I used two

brushes: a three-by-three rectangle and a single pixel.

Next 1 continued blocking the major areas of light and shadow with color. The results are the second image shown on the right. To create the third image, 1

switched to Freehand Draw and various "loose pixel" brushes to

create a more "painterly" feel.! also modified my color palette at this point.

Finally, over a period of two more days I worked almost entirely in Magnify-Pick Position mode, one

pixel at a time, to smooth curves and

Third. 1 switched to Freehand

Draw and "loose pixel" brushes, and modified trie color palette.

add detail, especially around the eyes. I created new brushes to re-work the clothing and the earring, and modi

fied the color palette again to soften shadows. The final results arc shown in the bottom image on the right.

Finally, over two more days, I

worked on the details using Magnlfy-PIck Position mode

to complete the Image.

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Graphicraft is an easy-to-use graphics program that inexpensively introduces you to drawing and painting on your Amiga. rectangle will be drawn. The Line option in the SHAPES menu lets you make

easy to become proficient at creating custom colors.

perfectly straight lines between two selected points. If you

If you want to erase part of a screen, or the whole

want to fill the interior of a shape, choose the Fill option.

screen—or have just drawn something you decide looks

When you move the pointer to the inside of the area to be

awful—you can resort to several different commands with

filled and click the mouse, the area will quickly flood fill with

in the EDIT menu that make doing these changes easy. For

the color you have selected. But be careful that the area is

instance, use the Frame command to mark off an area of

completely enclosed, or the fill will leak out and could

your screen. You can then use the Erase command to fill

completely cover the screen.

that area with the background color (effectively "erasing"

You can also put text within your picture using the Text

it), or the Cut, Copy and Paste commands to either cut it

option from the SHAPES menu. The program gives you a

out and paste it elsewhere, or simply paste a copy of it in a

choice of two sizes of text and three different ways to

different area of the screen, leaving the original intact.

present ft on the screen.

My favorite menu option is SPECIALS. The commands

From within the BRUSH menu, you choose from among

within this menu let you magnify an area for fine editing,

16 pre-made brushes. Additional libraries of different brush

create kaleidoscopic effects, draw in custom rainbow paint,

shapes can be maintained on disk, and, in fact, an extra

and create pseudo-animation.

library comes with the program. To design your own brush

For example, if you choose the Cycle Draw command

shapes, choose Custom Brush from the BRUSH menu. This

from SPECIALS, you first define a range of colors. Then,

is a small graphics editor that allows you to make different

when you draw something in this mode, the trail left by the

patterns (In one color) to be used as brushes and save

brush is a rainbow of the colors you selected. Once you've

them for re-use.

drawn something using Cycle Draw, choose Cycle Color—

The COLOR menu offers 32 different colors to be used

and the colors within the range you selected will begin to

as your drawing color. You can also create your own

rotate at any speed you choose to create the illusion of

custom color palette by selecting Change Palette from

motion. This lets you make animated pictures that will

within this menu. Using the Change Palette option, you can

astound your friends and family. You don't have to tell them

change or copy colors or create an entire range of colors

how easy It is.

that is totally different from the original palette. You modify

All in all, Graphicraft Is a good program that Inexpen

the color palette using three "slider gadgets" that control

sively Introduces you to painting and drawing on your

the red, green and blue color signals to mix any of the

Amiga. It may not answer the needs of some professional

possible 4096 colors the Amiga can produce. Using these

Amiga artists, but then not all of us are serious artists. But

sliders is very similar to mixing paint pigments, and it's

we can all use Graphicraft for serious fun.

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First, I drew a grid that would

be a guide lor my color-cycling

landscape, and used several shades of ton all

in the same row on my paietle, so when I cycled them, the

How to HotDog Using Graphicraft

ground would appear to move.

by Jack Haeger, Art Director, Commodore -Amiga

Some of you may be wondering how I got this hotdog to fly. Others

Then. I added

may be asking, "When's lunch?" The

the mountains

truth is that I got ibis idea about

to the back

11 -.30 one day—almost lunchiime.

ground, lar In

Since I'm from Chicago, that can

the distance, so

mean only one thing. Hoidogs. Now,

they wouldn't

I've seen hotdogs depicted in even-

Interfere with

medium from neon to neoprene. But

the Illusion of

had I ever seen one fly? Nope, not a

movement.

one. So 1 lookout my sketchbook and rendered this misslc of meat:

Jumbo Dog.

Next I tiaced the hotdog from my

sketchbook onto the screen, and laid in the basic colors using the

FIN option. Then I used a singlepixel brush to

create shading and reflections. I thought an appropriate setting

would be an Air Force test strip in the

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desert. That way the ground would be fairly flat, with no trees or buildings

to conflict witli the effect of a moving landscape I wanted to create using

the Cycle Color option. (This effect,

of course, is not reproduced here.) To get the hotdog from my sketch book to the screen. 1 redrew it. scaled it to fit the screen, and traced the drawing onto a .sheet of transparent acetate. I taped the acetate to my

Alter about an hour or so o) tweaking and fine-tuning, the

image was finished—just in time to get

home for dinner.

screen, and outlined the hotdog using

a single-pixel brush. To make the hotdog look sus

pended in air, 1 added a drop shadow that is just a shade darker than the darkest color in the cycle-color range. COMMODOOfc POWER/PLAY

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Playtest Pilots of the Computer Age by Shay Addams

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efbre the Air Force commits :i new

ues. It was such a bug that led to his

game until it is released) and three to

jet tighter to mass production, dare

enlistment in Infocoms corps of play-

devil test pilots subject it to intense shakedown flights, looking Tor design tlaws that could prove fatal. Software

tour comment sheets. Since then he

test pilots.

has playtested Suspect, A Miml For

companies, to ensure their programs

all the bugs I hail run across, telling

don't crash while you're in the cock

them I'd paid good money for this

pit, recruit beta testers — playtesl pi

game and was really upset. The bug

lots — to Search for deadly hugs lurk ing within the code of a new

that incensed me most was a logical

adventure, shoot-'cni-up or strategy game. What most people don'i know ilboul these unsung heroes of game development is thai playtesters also

contribute creatively, making sugges

"After finishing Infidel, 1 wrote In-

fbcom an Incensed letter describing

inconsistency. The game is set near

ever Voyaging, ami Spellbreaker.

Differences Between Testing and Play-testing

"The biggest difference is that 1 try-

the Nile River in Egypt, but you could

things 1 otherwise wouldn't do. silly things that I know wouldn't do me

walk arottttd the Nile in a few steps."

any good in solving the game: like

This infuriated Kimmel because it

finding out if 1 can shoot this gun with itself." Stephen Kimmel explains. "Sometimes I intentionally try to shoot holes in the game, just to sec how well the author did his job. In

didn't make sense and was especially

tions for changes and improvements

out of place in a game that consisted of logical puzzles,

that ultimately increase a program's "fun factor."

when you're deep inside the pyra

Spellbreaker, I found one Saw in a

explains Stephen Kimmel. a 36 year-

mid." he laughs at the memory, "you find a bottomless pit. I was dismayed

place referred to as a 'slippery plane.'

old chemical engineer from

Tulsa,

to discover that if I dropped a feather

saying walk east' or go east,' I won

Oklahoma, who has been testing Info-

or anything light into it. the text said 1

dered what would happen if I typed

coin's

in "slide east.1 "Hie program said some

"It's a way to get in on the act."

all-text adventures

for

"And near the end of the game,

where there were no walls. Instead of

two

could hear it hit the bottom—in a

years. "I don't pretend 1 have a lot of

bottomless pit! Michael Berlyn. Inji-

thing like: "You can't slide the east

influence on the final version Of a

del's author, wrote a

letter

wall' — after it had just said there

game, but I know they have to pay

thanking me for pointing out these

uvre no walls. Another difference is

attention to at least some of my sug

and other bugs, and not long after that

that when playtesting. I have to make

gestions, so it is a creative act."

1 ran into him at the Consumer Elec

notes of merytbtng that seems the

nice

Kimmel. who also writes short sto

tronics Show in Chicago. I told him

least bit strange. If I were playing. 1

ries for several science fiction maga

my letter would have probably been

would simply laugh at something and

zines, recalls recommending a couple

more useful if they'd received it be

say, 'Hey. look what happened, the

of changes in Cutthroats. One was to

fore

asked

programmer must have missed that.'

haw something happen to the trea

about the possibiliry of beta-testing

And when I reach the state of mind-

sure-laden

returns

future Inlbeom games. My phone rang

lock' and can't seem to make any pro

the submerged wreck to his

a week later, and Intbcom asked me

gress with a puzzle. I can't just put the game away and do something else

from

player after he

own ship. 'Hie surprise

they added

was one of my favorite moments in the game. "I also tind lots of "logical bugs'—

not just programming errors, though thev abound as well." Kimmel contin

the

game's release

and

to playtesl Cutthroats" In addition to the game. Kimmel

while my subconscious works on the

photocopies of the docu

problem. That's because Enfocom

mentation and paraphernalia, a non

gives me a three-week deadline, so I

disclosure agreement (in which he

have to slog a lot harder to complete

received


sponse to that command. It's reward

'The worst part of playtcstlng is

you must note what you were doing

that moment of panic when I realize

when (he program crashed, anything

ing to go back into a game two days

I've only got two days left and haven't

odd

later and see your suggestion as part

finished yet...pushing myself harder

suggestions you might have, if a prob

and harder to break that state of

lem is too easy, testers will tell the

mind-lock and get it over with. When

author. They may even suggest prob

I'm done,

lems or different ways of saying some

I completely

ignore the

"Sometimes I intentionally try to shoot holes injhe game, just to see how well the authoi did his job.

the game does, any problems,

of the game. Testers often write the

"The designers are

thing — so there's a lot of interaction between the author and testers."

a crazy

Suzanne Frank, one of Infocom's al pha testers, elaborates: "In alpha, the

bunch to

games are fraught with so many bugs that

it's hard

to

find

work with —

your way

through. And usually you can't even solve the game, because you run into a bug that crashes the program or

very

blocks progress some other way." One found

programming in

Suspect

Commodore,

Atari

bug

caused

and

alphas

the

early

Apple

ver

funny."

sions to crash if the "go to" command was used outside the house. "At the beginning," Suzanne recalls, "when Suspect wasn't written

very

well, 1 thought I'd nearly solved it and just needed one more piece of evi dence. I decided it must be in the

Independent playtesier Stephen Klnunel

comment sheets and type up an aver age of six single-spaced pages, num bering and detailing each problem. Witli Speltbreaher, which

I

didn't

quite gel to finish, I did 11 pages."

tnfiico ill's in-houst pi aytester Su/antic Frank

trunk of the car — hut when 1 opened

clue books, too. Three of us, along

it and looked in, there was no text!

with Brian Moriarty, did the one for

Dave l.ebling had written the para

Wisbbringer."

graph that describes the contents of

Like Stephen Kimmel, Suzanne has

the trunk, but overlooked implement

a "systematic method of testing, try

ing the code that displays it when you look there. I told him and he fixed it.

ing everything possible in even' imag inable place. Give me a gold coin and

Then when I read the text, it de

I'll put it in every slot I can find; give

scribed the trust folder, but wouldn't

me a lever and I'll pull it — even if I'm

let me take it! So he had to fix that,

not supposed to." She confesses that,

After he turns in his report. Info-

"The designers are a crazy hunch of

cam gives Kimmel his choice of any

"After gametesting for over a year,

people to work with, very funny. We

of their games. Besides the free games

all sit down together and they listen

some of die excitement is gone, and

and a crack at finding logical prob

to our comments and suggestions. So

lems with the situations devised by

we're not just playing —we're engag

the ZorkMasters of Infocom. Kimmel says be also likes playtesting because, "I enjoy being one of the first people

menters. In Suspect, for example, the

when they find a bug. Until 1 solve a

bartender glances at his tip glass,

game, however, it's a blast. And there-

ture."

tip. [Jut when I said Tip bartender,' nothing happened. So 1 asked Dave

Kimmel's work is made far less frus

alpha testers, who initially test a new game on a massive DEC mainframe,

then on Commodore and other mi cros before sending it to 15 to 25 beta testers.

"We shudder when people say /;/«)'testing," comments

Elizabeth

Cyr-Joncs, who heads up the depart

testers. Some people get really ex

cited, jump up and yell Teowww!'

which implied to me that he wanted a

trating by Infocoms in-house staff of

near the end. That's not true of all

ing in true interaction with the imple-

in the country n> play a new adven

Alpha Testing: The In-house Bug Busters

I'm usually pretty bored with a game

about it and he implemented a re

a

are still those times when, alter eight to ten hours at the terminal, I sudden

ly look up and realize I didn't eat din ner vet."

We know a

\ program will be in testing for five months, so ifs not playing."

ment "It's eight hours a day in front of a terminal. We know a program

will be in testing for five months, so it's not playing. On the hug sheets. 78

APRIUMAY'86

Elizabeth Cyi-Jones, iwatl oflnJbcom'i in-house him busters


The entire testing process ean span three to five months, sometimes long er if problems show up in gamma. That's the ultimate stage, reserved for the elite corps of Infocom's bug-bust ing army (a few people, like Kimmel, do beta and gamma). Like the 110 + out-of-housc Infocom [esters, gammas

ed doing this." (Albert co-authored

XypbtiS and has worked behind-thcscreens on

dozens of well-known

games.) "Besides looking for bugs. Origin

We ask customers to try out new games so we can get

testers check to see if the clues are

adequate, if there is anything awk

a real consumer's reaction.

ward or jarring that breaks up the

are people who wrote In and volun

fantasy," Albert says. "The reason is

teered for this arduous task. Suzanne

that, in a role-playing game, our goal

says there are 30 to 40 who are excel

is to make the computer transparent.

lent and test nearly every game.

We ask testers to stay on guard for the

ability to paint yourself into a corner in a game. And we check for play

Testing Other Types

balance, to make sure it's not too

of Games

hard, not too easy.

Infocom's testing process is repre sentative of the software industrv, but

"In Moebitis, for example, the com bat system is a simulation of martial arts-style fighting between two ani

mated figures. Testers noticed that the game required you to hit the en emy in too small a target in order to score a critical hit, so we made it a

little easier by expanding the size of

i -,

the game. Then the conversions are

the area where you could land a death

individually tested, especially for the

blow. We spend four to six weeks on

graphics and sound effects, which can

each game, seeing if we can speed this

vary immensely between

up a touch, slow this down a bit.

and a Commodore version.

an

Apple

We've been tweaking Movbiits on

"Betas don't really do 'bug-buBtlng1

how fast your sword is dulled when

for us," says Hunnewell. "Instead, we

you cut things with it. All this, just to

ask customers to try out new games

get it to feel right. There are no rules;

so we can get a real consumer's reac

tion. Their feedback often includes

it's a very intuitive process."

j\r{\i<'

Susan Hunnvwvll ofSpllUiakcr

The rules are rigid at Spinnaker,

hugs, but we're more interested in

however, where all testing is done in-

their opinion of the program, or to

British

house. Susan Hunnewell, responsible

determine if there's a market for an

writes

for Quality Control of Spinnaker's

unsolicited program."

educational and adventure titles, says,

'very clean* games

"Testers are

assigned specific por

tions of a game to go over — certain

She recruits from people who have filled

in warranty cards or offered

their services. With the former, she

that are easy to test." Dave Albert, head of the Origin Systems' play testing

(i Sometimes its

the method often varies for different

£•3; necessary to make 'the computer cheat at the higher skill levels/'

types of games or to suit the style of a particular programmer. For instance.

Lord British, creator of the Ultima

scries from Origin Systems, writes his programs in individual modules that are "very clean to begin with" ac cording to Origin's Dave Albert. "We normally do alpha and beta

testing," Albert explains, "but with Ultima IV the modules were put to

gether near the end, and we brought

/ SSTb Ruben Csdffee

locations

in

an

adventure

or

even

phones the families and "explain my

in the staff of'The Wizard"s Journal,' a

tracks on the disk. A printer is at

need and try to give them an opportu

newsletter devoted

Ultima-type

tached to each line's computer, and at

nity for input into the game's design.

the end of the day an editorial assis

Parents and teenagers are terrific at

The creators of the board game that

tant collates the printed material for

this."

to

games, to test it."

inspired Origin's AutoDuel tested that game, for obvious reasons. Al

assessment." Spinnaker's testing is done on IBM

ing, usually calls on "people I've met

PC's by two full-time and up to four part-time people, and might consume

and have gotten to know since 1 start

from 200 to 2S0 hours, depending on

bert, who's in charge of Origin's test

liven the president of Strategic Sim ulations, Joel

Billings,

occasionally

does a bit of playtesting in his free time, and so do the game designers. Continued on pg, nti

COMMODORE POWER/PWY

78


BUG BUSTERS er isn't thinking right, and makes

Most of tlit.- strategy/war games SSI

to see if the game presents a real chal

produces, however, arc run through

lenge. Our programs usually have one

dumb moves, then it isn't any fun.

the grinder by one pan-time and two

to five different difficulty settings, if

And sometimes, it's even necessary to

Bill-time In-house people. Roberi W. Calfee, In charge of SSI's

the toughest one is a cakewalk, some

make the computer intelligence cheat

thing is wrong.

at the higher skill levels. If the com

"And with a war game, you're not

puter is losing heavily in Computer

list of volunteers from which he se

only watching for anything that might

Quarterback, it peeks at the play

lects four to ten to try a new game.

go wrong with the graphics, the mili

you've just chosen and then picks the

"In addition to having (esters find ele

tary units, and so on, but you're also

mentary bugs — the ability to win a

looking for

In a war

is so that even the veteran players

game simply by pressing a function key is a good example — we ask them

game, play balance has to do with the

(and novices, once they've mastered

Technical .Support, says he has a long

play

balance.

computer intelligence. 1!' the comput-

best response. The reason we do thai

the easier levels) will still face a chal lenge from the computer.

"Testers suggest changes ant! im provements all the time," Calfee con

tinues. "Everyone has a better way of

TEAM-MATE: THE SINGLE SOLUTION TO THE CLUTTER THAT CAN TIE UP YOUR DESK

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one complained that the player, when protected

by his invisible shield,

could not fire out through it. That was a good point, so we made it possible."

Unlike companies that send out nu merous beta copies, then incorporate the research into a final version that is

When you buy TEAM-MATE, you receive an integrated software sys tem — word processing, file managemenr, spreadsheet and graphics — for rhe some price you would normally pay for one pro gram. The beauly of integrarion is rhe ability ro go from one pro gram ro onorher insranrly wirh no

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lerrer, or

label.

ple for more testing, "With us, there's no solid delinea tion between playtesling steps. It's ei ther in testing or it's released," Calfee says.

The process can last from as little as a week to as much as a month. By the

version of the game, minus the glossy packaging anil documentation. (SSI is noted for complex and lengthy man

uals, so testers also check the author's rough draft of the documentation for clarity and scope.) '"Hie emphasis |in playtcstingj is on the testing." Calfee stresses. "If testers find enough bugs, make valuable sug gestions, they'll be kept on the list. And the best ones are put on the pri ority list."

SSI doesn't pay its testers, and nei ther do other software houses. Unlike Air Force test pilots who receive haz

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80

then

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time it's over, the tester has a finalized

Wirh all rhe informorion available

So if you

gamma tested, SSI and a few other

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COiiiPUTER UIIZHRD

DYl.OUS I. SANIJI.II

Disk Drives Demystified Part 1 JLt' you're a Commodore computer user, you cither own ;i disk drive al ready or you have one at llie top of your wish list, This month's column is

a compendium of elementary Infor mation on using Commodore drives. It will he- especially valuable to begin ners, since much of this information is not readily available elsewhere. Hor

the same reason, even more advanced users may lind value in these pages. In

er. Double-sided disks will

always

since Hipping ihe disk makes il rotate

the next issue, we'll expand on what's

work in single-sided drives, but their

in a reverse direction with respect to

presented here.

extra cost is wasted there.

The drives we will consider are the

1540, 154] and 15~ i. Commodore has made other drives, but these tliree

its jacket, the jacket's cleaning mech

"density" specification refers

anisms are bypassed. Either problem

to the quality of the disk s recording

can cause a disk or a program to self-

surface

destruct,

The

All

the Commodore drives,

and can

make

its owner

wain to do the same, Fortunately, the

The 1540 was the original ivory-col

and most others in use today, are deSigned for use with double-density

ored drive for the VIC 20. When the

diskettes.

pen. So if you use Hippy disks at all.

Commodore 64 was introduced, the

were popular several years ago, when

avoid using them for valuable pro

1540 was replaced by the more com

disk

was

grams or data. Many people use them

patible 1541. The 15"! was designed for die Commodore I2H. With a lew minor exceptions, any of these drives

much less than it is today. They will

exclusively for backups, while many

work in a pinch in your Commodore,

others don't use them at all,

are the iniisi Important ones by far.

will work with any computer having a

Single

drive

density

diskettes

recording density

but in general you should avoid them,

Diskettes

also

have

a

"soft-sec

worst rarely happens, but it iUh-s hap

The Basics of Using Your Drive

Commodore serial bus. VIC 20's and

tored"

very old drives are involved in mosi of

tion. Commodore drives work equally

the exceptions.

well with either type.

Buying Diskettes The 1540 and 15-il are single sided

If you have a single-sided drive, it's

They have similar storage functions

possible to use the "Hip side" of a

for data files such as word processing

diskette, // you'll do some cutting and

documents, mailing lists and the like.

drives.

have one

take some risks. To make a "flippy"

A very complete sel of commands ex

read/write head, positioned below

disk, you cut an additional write-en-

the diskette. The 1571, on the other

ists for performing these functions, as

able notch, immediately opposite the

well as for doing other useful tasks.

hand,

That

means

they

is a double-sided drive, with

or "hard-sectored" specifica

The most

frequent

use of disk

drives is to save and load programs.

one that's already there. ( When you

Iteginners can find them difficult at

the

hold your disk with its oval opening

first, but with a bit of use. they be

bottom ami one on the top. '['he two

down, so the existing notch is toward

kinds of drives work best with Iwo

come simple and self-evident. We'll

the top of its right edge, the location

kinds ol diskettes: If you have a IS?!.

mention

for the new notch is toward the top ol

here.

its lei! edge.) You can use another disk

two

read/write heads—one

on

it's best to buy double-sided, double-

the more common ones

density diskettes. If you have a 1541

as a template for cutting the notch,

The commands used for Commo dore drives are the same, regardless

or 1540, you should buy the less ex

which must be positioned quite pre

of the computer

pensive

cisely. Mark the position, then use

they're issued. (Some computers, like

single-sided, double-density

variety.

through which

scissors or a razor blade to cut a new

The "-sided" specification for dis

the Commodore I2K and Plus/4, have

notch. Once the notch has been cut.

kettes refers only to the manufactur

two sets of commands: the universal

jusl Hip the diskette over and ireat the

er's testing process. Single sided dis

second side us a brand-new disk.

set covered here, plus an improved, simplified set. Many commercial pro

kettes are tested only on the bottom,

The much-discussed risks of using

while double-sided ones are tested on

Hippies are real, but manageable. First

the top, as well. Single-sided disks will

of all, since the manufacturer hasn't

Before a disk can be used in your

often work in double-sided drives, but

tested the second surface, it may have

drive, you must use your computer to

there's no guarantee from their mak-

dead

format

82

APRIL/MAY "86

spins or oilier

Haws. Second.

grams also implement simplified disk commands.)

il.

(Sometimes the words


COmPUTER UIIZHRD "header" or "new" arc used instead of

three-letter code

"formal." They all refer [n the same

file is a program (PUG) or u daia file

tells whether the

thing.) Formatting sets up the blank

This month's column

di.sk to receive Information from your computer, and every disk must be for

is a compendium of

tween the types of data files are be

matted before it can be used to store

elementary

they are covered in depth in your

programs or data.

Each computer

manufacturer uses iis own formatting system, m) one computer can hardly

ever read disks that were formatted on another brand, unless the two

brands arc "cloned." (CP/M disks for the Commodore !2H arc one of the very rare exceptions.) You can lake a disk from another computer and re format

it

on your own system, but

Men's the

information on using Commodore disk

com

At the bottom of the directory list ing is a line showing how many disk

blocks are free for storage of other

drives that will be of special value to

files. A 1540/1541 diskette can hold 66i blocks in total, while a I S"71 can

hold 1,328. There's also

a

limitation

on

the

number of files a disk can hold. Ifs 14-i for all the drives under consider-

beginners.

aiion here. If you try to save some

LOAD"programfiattieu,8 universal format

yond our scope at the moment, but manual.

that, of course, erases any data it pre viously held.

(SBQ,REL,U5R), The differences be

thing that exceeds the block or tile

limits on your disk, the drive will re

You can load a machine language progran) with

fuse to save il.

OPEN 15,8,15 PR1NT# I S.-NEWOaftsfeKflnMj/rf"

When

Learning More About It

CLOSE l>

good indication that the program was

dimentary disk commands here, in an

written In machine language.

effort io enlighten beginners, There

mand for the drives we're covering here:

in tiiis command, diskname is a name

a

program's

instructions re

quire it to be loaded in this way. ifs a

We've mentioned only the most ru

you want to assign to the disk, and Ut

If you want to see a list of the pro

is an identification code. The disk-

grams on your disk, plus the disk'

name may be up to

16 characters

name and id, you can look at the disk

them all. The key to understanding

long and can include any character

director;'. The universal method of

these matters' is ibe universal key to

except the comma, question mark or

doing this is to

unlocking

asterisk.

Must

people

use

only

uri-

are many additional commands avail

able, and there arc many ways io use

computer

knowledge:

Read the manual1

LOAD-S'.K

You don't have to understand every

LIST

shifted letters and numbers In their disknames, since other characters can

This loads the directory as though it

word in the manual, but you should

list Strangely in directories.

were a BASK;

be generally familiar with the table of contents, [he overall organization of

The id must be

two characters

since

program, lie careful,

it also overwrites any

BASIC

long. Almost any character is legal,

program you have in memory at the

the book, and the material that ap

but you're asking for trouble if you

lime.

plies to the operations you do most

use anything bin numbers and tin-

Once your directory has been load

frequently. Don't be surprised if some

shifted letters. Yon should avoid as

ed, you can list it to your printer by

of the chapters are unintelligible—

signing the same id to several disks.

using these commands:

some technical material isn't compre

because doing so can cause trouble

OPEN4,4:CMD4

hensible to ANY beginner. As you ex

with certain programs. Most people

LIST PRINT#4:CLOSE4

your

use a sequence like AA, AH. AC, AD.

plore the manual, you'll notice thai understanding

increases

with

etc.. maintaining a checklist to avoid

When you look at a directory listing,

every reading. This is a common phe

duplication. Our formatting example, and nil

you'll see

in reverse

nomenon with computer literature,

field, on the top line, followed by the

and you can take advantage of il by

those to come, assume that your disk

reading everything several times.

drive has device number H, which is

disk Id. Also on that line arc a <> mhI a 2A, which are characteristic Identifi

the near universal device number for

ers for the disk drives we're talking

Commodore drives and reading ihem

the lirst drive on any System, fa the

about here.

supplements

the diskname,

There are also some good books on

your

efforts

with

the

Following the diskname is a listing

manual. To find them, read the ads in

different number, use that number in

Of all the programs and data on the

ibis magazine or visit a well stocked

stead of the H in our examples.

disk.

bookstore.

unlikely event that your drive has a

(In

our

discussion,

we'll

call

Once a disk has been formatted,

each of these a file.) Each line has a

you can save BASIC programs 10 ii by

number, a filename in quotation marks, and a three-letter code at the end. The number gives the si/.e of the

Additions and Accessories

same

file in blocks, with each block equal

easier to work with your Commodore-

mentioned

ing about 2W characters. The file

drive. The most famous of these is the

above for diskname. You can load a

name, of course, is the name that was

Commodore 64s DOS 5.1. generally

BASIC program from disk by using

entered when the file was saved. The

Continued  Ag, h i

using SAW."J>n>}ii<ii>/>/</i>U'",H

The program name has character

restrictions

the

There are dozens of programs, many in the public domain, to make it

COMMODORE POWfcR/PLAY

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JIFFIES

IfY 1)

Assignment Sheet for the Commodore 64 with 1526 or MPS-802 Printer

J ---

'*!«!,

Mr.

XTLs the father of three teen-aged students, l frequently hear the question. '"Dad, can I call mkukIso to find nut what our homework is for tomorrow?" When l ;isk, "Why didn't you write ii down?" they usually reply, "1

did, but I lost it." In response to this problem, i created an Assignment

111

Sheet form. They can print out as many copies as they want at a time, and put them in (heir three-ring binders. Bach time they receive an assignment, they till out one of the forms, which asks for the follow ing information:

112 120 130

:"SPC(5) "ROOM *:'"ELKG PRINTS4,CHRS(13)'CGPA PRINT#4,ASSPC(3) " ["] [-] "SPC(3)"[") PRINT#4,CHRS(13)'CGPA

140

PRINTS4,ASSPC(2)»*•*******•*••********

160

PRINTjf4,CHR$(13) 'CGPD

170

PRINT#4,ASSPC(3)"SUBJECT

Grade received

180

:"SPC(10)"TEACHER:"'DJFK PRINT#4,CHRS(13)'CGPF

Memo

190

PRINT#4,ASSE>C{3)"["]

Name, j;r;ide and room number Subject and leather The assignment Due dale and date turned in

References used to complete the assignment

Now a complete record of each assignment they re ceive is safely stashed In their binders—provided they remember to fill out the forms. The program for creating your own Assignment Sheet

forms is at the end of this article, if you :ire using any printer other than the Commodore !52f> or MPS-802, you may need to change the secondary address and

pj

200

213 220 230

how to do this.)

Q

Ilefon- typing this program, read "Hott1 lo Enter Programs" and "How to L^ [he limn1 Prunram." Thi." BASIC programs in ihfc imgazMc art available DO disk from I P.O. llux 50007. Shrcvrpun, LA "UilHKXF, l-8CKHI31-2fi9i

"■■CGIH

2 50 260

PRINT#4,CHRS(13)'CGPE

270

PRINT#4,A$SPC[3)"DUE

10

53280,7:POKE

PRINT"[DOWN2.RIGHT4]"PLEASE PRINTER!!*"'BADJ PRINT"[RIGHT,DOWNl*PR0GRAM

21

MULTIPLE COPIES*"'BAXI PRINT"[DOWN2,RIGHT4]"PROGRAM

PRINT#4,A5SPC[3)"D

"SPC (10) " [ * ]

WILL

PRINT#4,CHRS(13)'CGPY TO

COMPLETE

ASSIGNMENT:"'CGUJ

ON PRINT

WILL

320

PRINTiM ,CHRS(13) 'CGPB

330

PRINT#4,ASSPC(3)"[*]

343

PRINT#4,CHRS(13)'CGPD

"'CGII

3 50

PRINT#4,ASSPC(3)"[*]

360

PRINTS4,CHR$(13)'CGPF

«'CGIK

RUN

STOPPED*"'BAPJ

PRINT"[DOWN2,RIGHT4]*PRESS AND HOLD (RUN/STOP) TO ST0P*"'BAHJ (P) TO START 35 PRINT"[DOWN2,RIGHT4]* PRESS PROGRAM*":INPUT NS'CDTN 40 IF NSO"P"GOTO 30'EEHD 50 IF N$="P"G0T0 60'DEND 60 A$=CHRS(14)'CGWE 70 BS=CHRS(129)'CHDF 80 OPEN 4,4,0'BFRF 90 PRINT#4,CHR$(14 7)'CHVH 95 PRINT#4,CHRS(13)'CGPM 100 PRINT«4,AS;AS;SPC(S)"*ASSIGNMENT 110

PRIHT#4,CHRS(13)'CGPG

PRINTS'),A?SPC(3) "KEF.USED

TURN

20

30

BY

OM:"'DJRL

290

300

PRINT"[DOWN2,RIGHT10|*ASSIGNMENT

UNTIL

IN

280

53231,9'DQTJ

SHEET*""BALD 15

ii 'CGIJ

'"DJEL

PRINT"[CLEAR,RVS,WHITE,RVOfF]" :POKE

"SPC(8)"

PRINT#4,CHR$(13)■CGPX PRINTS4,ASSPC(3)"ASSIGNMENT:"'CGGC PRINTS4,CHRS(13)'CGPA PRINT#4,ASSPC(3)"["1

:"SPC(10)"TURNED

Assignment Sheei

"EPC(5) " "'EKJG

"'DIVM

PRINT#4,CHRS(13)'CGPC PRINT*4,A5SPC(3)"["]

240

CURS (refer to your printer's manual for information on

5

P»j.nt# 4, ASS PC (3) "NAME:"SPC(10) "GRADE

370

PRINT#4,A$SPC(3)"GRADE

RECEIVED

ON

ASSIGNMENT:"'CGHO 380

PRINTif4,CHRS(13) ' CGPH

3 90

PRINTf4,ASSPC(3) " ["]

400

PRINT»4,CHRS(13)'CGPA

410

PRINTS 4,AS;ASS PC(10) "**MEM0**"'CKLE

420

PRINT#4,CHRS(13)'CGPC

4 30

PRi;JT#4,A$SPC(3) "[")

440

PRINT#4,CHRS(13) 'CGPE

450

PRINT1S4,ASSPC(3)"[")

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460

PRINT#4,CHRStl3)'CGPG

PRINT#4,CHRS(13) 'CGPX

470

CLOSE

" 'CGMK

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4:G0T0

60'CECG

END COMMODOKt POWER/PLAY

89


JIFFIES

HVDAMIU. R WINSTEAD

1,2,3 Disk Directory

liifntc [ypinj; lilts program, teal "How Ui liner Programs" .mil 'How i» Use tin- Migarinc

Entry I'riijyjm" The BASK! proRrami in ihh mn^iuini.1 >rc- iraibble on siei. from |j»<hlar,

VO Itai.WWT.Shrrvi'p.irl.UHlWMP, I-KU0-831-2GW

for Commodore 64 and

1,2,3 Disk Directory

8K VIC 20

5

DIM CS(2,99)'BI0F

7

PRINT CHRS(147)'CFBH

10

FOR

1=0

TO

2:F0R

J=0

TO

99

:C$(I,J)="":NEXT J,I'IURG

W hilc making ;i prfQtout ol my disk directories using

20

MANY

DISKS(1-3):":INPUT

25

IF

jusi how much paper I was wasting on an 80-column

30

FOR

page Only about one-third ol the page was being used i Chen decided to write a program that would read up to

40

PRINT"INSERT

50

PRINT"HIT

ANY

60

GET

Z$=""THEN

70

OPEN

in three columns on an 80-column page. Here Is a brief description of how the program works: line 5

sets up a string matrix of three directories, each icm) lines long.

Line 7

clears 1 li*_- screen and homes die cursor.

Line 10

clears all of the elements in the matrix.

Line 2!)

asks the user how many disk directories are to he printed across a page.

Line 30

sets Up B loop to read the desired number of

Line 71)

directories. opens a channel on device X to read the direc tory.

Line HO

reads In the load address (not used here).

Line 90

cheeks for end of directory,

Lines 100-125 read in the directory Items line by line and

remove all quotation

marks and some

Line 130 eloses the channel and puts an end marker at the end ol tlie director;' array currently being processed. The loop is then repeated as many times as requested.

Line 2t)() opens a primer channel and clears some Hags thai determine if a directory being printed has

110

120 125

20'FGRH

DISK#";1+1'CDTF KEY

WHEN

READY!"'BASH

60'EHHG

GET#1,A$:IF

CLOSE

201

IF

1:CS(I,L)="XXX":NEXT

IF

To use this program, load the program into the com

want directories printed out Then you will he request ed to insert the tirsl disk into the drive and [tress any key to continue. The directory will be read into memory.

You will then be requested to insert ihe next disk, if applicable. Alter the last directory is read in. the print out will begin. Make sure, prior to running the program,

that the printer is set up properly. Run tin program as mam times as needed tor more printouts.

If your directories are very short, you can gel up to 15

directories lisicd on a single 80-column page. If one or more of your directories contains more than 101) en tries, you can change the DIM statement in line 5 to

Q

I'DLTD

5,4:A1=0:A2=0:A3=0:L=0'FSWD

tJ = l

:G0T0 202

A$=CHR$(34)THEN

110'FPAC IF A$=""THEN C$(I,L)=MID$(CS{I,L), 1,26):L=L+l:G0T0 85'IFKI CS{I,L)=C5(I,L)+A$:G0T0 110'DUII

THEN

PRINT#5,C$ (0,L) :L=L+1

210'HTMF

N=2

THEN

PRINT#5,C$(0,L);

CHRS(146)SPC(2)CS(1,L):L=L+1

205

:G0T0 210'JJSK PRINT#5,CS(0,L);CHRS(146)SPC(2)C$ (1,L);CHR${146)SPC(2)C$(2,L) :L=L+l'HSN0

210 240 250

IF Al=l OR C$(0,L)="XXX"THEN A1=1 :PRINT#5,TAB{26);:G0T0 250'JYOI PRINT#5,C$(0,L);'BKWC IF N=l THEN IP Al=l THEN PRINTK5 :CL0SE

5:END'JJCI

255

IF

THEN

N=l

:G0T0

260

IF

L=L+1:PRINTK5

210'HLDM

A2=l

OR C$(1,L)="XXX"THEN

:PRINT#5,TAB(26);:GOTO

puter and then type RUN <Ri:TI'HN -. You will he prompted 10 enter the number ol disks from which you

ATOL/MAV'flfi

THEN

N-1:L=0:PRINT'GIFE

1,8,0,"$0":N$=CHRS{0>'DMIH

OPEN

then closed and the program ends.

accommodate more entries, it you wish

TO

Z$:IF

200

umns until all directory entries contain the end-of-direc-

tory marker( xxx >. This is checked in line 520. The lile is

OR N>3

1=0

130

any more entries.

Three directories are primed in their appropriate col

N<1

80 GET#1,A$,AS'BIXG 85 GET#1,A$,A$'BIXL 90 IF A$=""THEN 130'DFUH 100 GET#1,A$,B$:X=ASC(A$+N$)+ASC (B$+N5)*256:C$(I,L)=STR$(X)'KLGJ

Spaces to make enough room to lit three col umns across a page.

N

:PRINT'DDKF

the usual OPBN4,1:CMD4:LIST In direct mode, I realized

three disk directories into memory; and then prim them

86

PRINT"H0W

270 275 280

290 300

IF Al=l THEN PRINTS5,C$(1,L); :G0T0 280'PRUJ PRINTfl5,TAB(26-LEN(C$(0,L)));C$(1, L);'EXJP A2=l

THEN

PRINT)t5:CLOSE 5:END'LHIN IF N=2 THEN L=L+1:PRINT#5 :G0T0 210'HLEL IF A3=l OR C$(2,L)="XXX"THEN

IF

N=2

THEN

IF

A3«l

:PRINT#5:G0T0

310

IF A2=l :G0T0

315

A2=l

280'JYUN

THEN

Al=l

AND

320'ITOH

PRINT*5,C${2,L)

320'FOIE

PRINT#5,TAB(26-LEN(C$(1,L)));CS(2, L)'EWIJ

320

IF

Al=l

AND

A2=l

PRINT#5:CL0SE

330

L=L+l:G0T0

AND A3=l

THEN

5:END'KN0I

210'DHWD

END


guitie pRocRnms

BY STEVEN |>Rt >l'l-K

,..a*v;?-'.- ^r■"•'''■'

Joggers

'-=

for the Commodore 64

Weelcome

to the wacky world of barefoot Jogging.

Your mission is to win the annual Joe Jogging contest by

surviving an onslaught of dangerous objects. What can possibly be dangerous about jogging barefoot? Well, be sides the obvious stress on your knees and ankles, you should also be on the lookout for nails, toadstools, pur

ple pollution, glass, pot holes, green worms, and poison apples. You may take up to eight faulty steps before you

are disqualified, and have to start over. Each faulty step results in a change of the status eolor of your feet.

difficulty. Be carefi.il, though. It' you jump too far off the

screen, the game will be disqualified and the computer

Get Ready, Get Set...

will get angry with you!

To ensure your success when typing in Joggers, please

On your screen, you will see two feet jogging along a

use the proofreader program that appears elsewhere in

dangerous trail with a variety of hazards coming at them.

this magazine. Always save your programs before test-

One object of Joggers is to avoid jogging where your

running them. Immediately after starting Joggers, you

sensitive feet might get hurt. This means avoiding the

will see

abbreviated

junk! After a completed game, you will be informed of

Instructions. While this information is being displayed

how many mistakes you made and the game difficulty

On the screen, the machine language and sprite data is

status. It is at this time that you may change the diffi

being loaded into memory. Next, the screen will turn

culty level.

an

opening screen

with some

black for a few seconds as the custom-character data is loaded.

Changing the Difficulty

GO!

making of a difficulty level, 1 chose the simple approach

Because tiiere were so many possible variables in the Assuming everything has been entered correctly, you

and left word commands to control everything, from the

are now ready to play. Joggers does not require a joy

objects-per-stcp to the vertical starting position. My rec

stick. Instead, hold the V key to go left or hold thej key

ommendation is that you experiment at changing the

to go right. If you find it is too late to avoid an object,

difficulty level. Combinations can range from simple to

you may attempt to jump it by pressing the K key. Using

downright impossible.

the jump option will also increase your vertical status

Have fun and enjoy Joggers! :FOR

Hcftirt !)ping thij program, n-jil "Now hi linlcr I'rujtrjnn" and "How in Use (he fcnliy Prunr.nn " Ibc BASH) progr-jins in rhis mijtuiiw uc available on disk from toiusta/,

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10

GOTO

20

:'ABHX

30 40

SYS 49152:REM :'ABHA

50

REM

60

MS=PEEK(53287}-241:VP=PEEK{S+1)

IIP 70

850'BDMX

*****

SOUND

THEN

GOSUB

820:POKE

:P0KE

54278,255:POKE

80 90

FOR

1=155

:POKE

TO

50

54276,21

FOR

160

PRINT"[CLEAR]":POKE :POKE S+1,0'EOJG

170

IF

180

IN=IN+1:IF IN=6 THEN IN=1'GMGK IP IN=1 THEN PRINT"[CLEAR]SORRY,

190

200

54287,T'EMIJ

140

STEP-25

STEP

SCORE

&

PEEK{835)=85

IF

JOG

LIKE

REPLAY'BRHE

53272,21

THEN

A

250'EKEG

YOUNG

RADICAL

IN=2

THEN

PRINT"[CLEAR]

JOG

LIKE

AN

WITH 210

I,Z

20

IF YOU

220

HIGH

HEEL

ELDERLY

WOMEN

SHOES!"'EDDN

IN=3

THEN

PRINT"[CLEAR]

JOG

LIKE

OLD

MAN

WITH

A

WHITE

RED[SPACE3]TIPED CANE!'"EDVN IF IN=4 THEN PRINT"[CLEAR] YOU

230 TO

*****

YOU

820:POKE 54277,8 54278,255:POKE 54276,21

Z = 10

54296,0

54278,15:W0=W0+l'FBIH

: ' ABHY

YOU

:T=0'FIXF 120

S+39,I

WHI-PPERSNAPPER!"' EDAV

54273,I:T=T-1:NEXT

GOSUB :POKE

I,Z:POKE

6:POKE

54273,I'MMPM

REM

L10'KFHP

:POKE 54278,15:POKE 54296,0'LQVU 100 LO=LO+1:GOTO 160'DJDY 110

STEP

150

54277,8

:T=255'FKAN FOR Z=l TO 50:POKE

NEXT

250

140

LOOP'COQD

EFFECTS'BRIF

PEEK(835)=85

130

TO

54287,2:POKE

:POKE

Joggers

GAME

1=0

:POKE

0

HAVE

TO

LEARN

TO

WALK,

BEFORE IF IN=5

YOU[SPACE3]CAN JOG!"'EDXO THEN PRINT"[CLEAR]

PERHAPS

A

LOWER

LEVEL

OF

COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

87


GnmE PRocRnms /joggers DIFFICULTY,

IF

THERE

IS

ONE..."'EDQR

580

A

[RVS]L

GOTO

250

PRINT"[CLEAR]CONGRATULATIONS,

EDIUM

IGH

OBJECTPER

590

GET

B$:IF

260

[SPACE2]YOU SURVIVED THE "'BALM PRINT"WITH ONLY ";'BBDF

600

BSO"H"THEN 590'LMBS OPS=1:SPO=3:IF B$="M"THEN

IF

MS = 0

WITH 280

290 300

IF

AND

MS>1

JOG

PRINT"[HOME,DOWN]

PRINT"ONE MS<5

THEN

MIS-STEP! PRINT

IF

MS>4 A

THEN TOTAL

MS;

VP<50

[RVS]H[RVOFF]

STEP

RATING?'" BAEA

BSO"L"AND

B$O"M"AND

OPS=2

610

IF

620 630

IF A$O"[F3] "THEN 680'EFGG PRINT"[UP]DO YOU WANT [RVSJB [RVOFF)EGINNING [RVS]I[RVOFF1

BS="L"THEN

OPS=3:SPO=1'FLYH

PRINT"[HOME,DOWN]

NTERMEDIATE

OF";MS;

640

ROFESSIONAL STATUS?"1BAJW GET BS:IF B$O"B"AND BSO"I"AND BSO"P"THEN 640'LMQO

MIS-STEPS!"'EHWI

IF

OR

:SPO=2'HVHK

MIS-STEPS!"'GJCO

"

THEN

PRINT"[CLEAR]

OR [RVS ] P [ RVOFE']

650

VP=50:IF

:LO=LO+100"ISCO

660

IF

PRINT"

670

SM=VP'BEWI

680 690

IF A$<>"[F5]"THEN 740'EFEM PRINT"[UP]DO YOU WANT A [RVS]S

CHEATERS 320

[RVOFF]OW[SPACE2,RVS]M[RVOFF]

MIS-STEPS!"'EDEM

THEN

WITH 310

THEN

ZERO

IF MS=1 '" EDHK

"

NEVER

PROSPER!":WO=WO-1

--"'BAEG

B$="I"THEN

B$="P"THEN

VP=VP+50'GNBM

VP=VP+100'FJLL

330

PRINT"[DOWN. TOTAL :";WO'BDWF

[RVOFF]HORT

340

[SPACE2,RVS]L[RVOFF]ONG 700

GET

360

PRINT"[DOWN] TOTAL GAMES LOST : ";LO'BDJH PRINT"[DOWN]CURRENT O.P.S: "; :IF OPS = 1 THEN PR INT"HIGH"'FGSL IF OPS = 2 THEN PR1NT"MEDI UM" ' EKIJ1

710

BSO"L"AND BSO"E"THEN 700'OOPO LG=1:IF BS="M"THEN LG=2'FJPH

370

IF

720

IF

BS="L"THEN

LG=3'EFPH

380

PRINT"[DOWN]VERTICAL

730

IF

BS="E"THEN

LG=255'EHMI

740

IF

AS="[F7]"THEN

750

FOR

350

: 390

OPS=3

THEN

GAMES

WON

PRINT"LOW"'EEAI

STATUS

";"BBVK

IF

VP>49

AND

VP<100

THEN

410

IF

VP>99

AND

VL'<150

IF

760

:'ABHH

770

REM

THEN

PRINT"PROFESSIONAL

IF VP<50 THEN ANSWER"'EEEG

430

PRINT"[DOWN]LENGTH

460 470 480 490

780 GAME:

";

:IF LG=1 THEN PRINT"SHORT"'FFNL IF LG=2 THEN PRINT"MEDIUM"'EUJH IF LG=3 THEN PRINT"LONG"'EDSH IF LG=255 THEN PRINT"ETERNAL"'EFOJ FOR 1=0 TO 9:GET AS:NEXT'FHHJ PRINT"[DOWN]PRESS [RVS]Fl[RVOFF] TO

CHANGE

O.P.S."'BAWN

PRINT"[DOWN]PRESS TO

CHANGE

STATUS"1BACR

520

PRINT"[DOWN]PRESS [RVS]F5[RVOFF] TO CHANGE LENGTH OF GAME"'BAKI PRINT"[DOWN]PRESS [RVS]F7[RVOFF] TO END THE GAME"'BADH PRINT"(DOWN,RVS]PRESS ANY OTHER

530

KEY TO PLAY AGAIN[RVOFF]"'BAQL GOSUB 820:POKE V+5,8:POKE Vt6,255

500

510

:POKE 540

550

V+4,21:POKE

V+24,5'JCON

IF VP<50 THEN VP=50'EIWH GET A$:A=INT(RND(TI)*255):POKE :POKE

V+1,A:POKE

:POKE

V+4,32'MJOT

560

IF

AS=""THEN

570

GOSUB

820: IF

790

780:POKE

53272, 240)+12'LLXU

*****

RESET

OPS

f.

V,A

POKE

835,LG:POKE

832,OPS

:POKE

833,0:POKE

:POKE

53287,241:POKE

POKE

830,0:POKE

834,0 S+1,VP'HRJW

S+16,0

836,EPO:POKE

53248,150

800

:RETURN'GFQU :'ABHC

810

REM

820

FOR 1=54272 TO 54295:POKE I,0:NEXT :POKE 54296,15:RETURN'HBWN

*****

SOUND

CHIP

CLEAR'BTQI

830

:'ABHF

840

REM

850

POKE

860

:PRINT"[CLEAR]";TAB(15)"[RED,RVS] JOGGERS! [RVOFF,BLUE,SHFT M] '" EUXR PRINT TAB(15)"[CMDR *,RVS,SPACE7,

*****

CMDR

GAME

SET

53281,0:POKE

*,RVOFF,CMDR

UP'BOMK 53280,0

G,YELLOW,DOWN3)

"'CDKO

870

PRINT

880

[DOWN2]"'CDWP PRINT TAB(10)"HOLD [RVS]FIRVOFF] TO GO LEFT[DOWN1"'CDRO

V+4,33

890

550'DFBH AS<>"[Fl]

END'ECGI

40:PRINT:NEXT:VP=SM

30'BCKL

:POKE

[RVS]F3(RVOFF]

VERTICAL

GOTO

BSO"M"AND

VERTICAL'BWKO

PRINT"NO OF

TO

OR[SPACE5,

GAME?"'BAEB

B$O"S"AND

(PEEK(53272)AND 755

420

450

1=1

:GOSUB THEN

"'EFVG

440

B$:IF

PRINT"INTERMEDIATE"'GJJH VP>149

[RVS]M[RVOFF]EDIUM

RVS]E[RVOFF]TERNAL

PRINT"BEGINNER"'GJVO 400

88

WANT

240

270

320'BDEB

"THEN 620'FJVL PRINT"[UP]DO YOU

900

TAB(10)"BY.

STEVEN

PROPER

PRINT TAB{10)"HOLD [ RVS]J[RVOFF] TO GO RIGHT[DOWN]""CDYS PRINT TAB(10)"PRESS [RVS]K[RVOFF]


cnmE PROGRnms /joggers 910

TO JUMP[DOWN2] '"CDAJ PRINT TAB (6)"PLEASE WAIT, [SPACE2} LOADING DATA..."'CCPM

920

FOR

930

:POKE T,DA:NEXT:I=0'HXEO READ A:IF A=2040 THEN 950'EKNK

1290

940

POKE

49152+1,A:I=I+1:GOTO

930'FQEN

POKE

56334,PEEK(56334)AND

254

1300

950

960

FOR

970

FOR

980

POKE 1,PEEK(1)OR 4:POKE PEEK(56334)OR 1'GVXT

985

POKE

T=12288

:POKE

TO

12414:READ

1,PEEK(1)AND

1=0

TO

DA

:POKE

TO

1320

A:PRINT

1+12416,A:NEXT'IRVS

1330

56334,

1340

52,48:POKE

1000

1350

56,48:CLR:OPS=2

1360

S+21,3'JPNC

V=54272:LG=1:SPO=2:GOSUB :GOSUB

820:GOTO

780

1370

30'GBJC

1010

: 'ABHT

1020

REM

1030

DATA

62,0,0,127,0,0,255,0,0'BWKA

1040

DATA

2 54,0,0,2 5 2,0,0,252,0,0'BXHB

1050

DATA

252,0,0,254,0,124,255,0,

*****

SPRITE

1380

DATA'BPGY

1390

DATA

1070

63"BDHE DATA 42,192,63,10,192,63,0,0,

1080

127'BCXF DATA 0,0,255,0,0,254,0,0,124'BXIF

1090

DATA

0,2,1,0,3,84,0,3,80,0'BVHG

1100

DATA

0,0,124,0,0,254,0,0,255'BXIX

1110

DATA

0,0,127,0,0,63,0,0,63'BVKY

1120

DATA

62,0,63,127,0,127,255,0,

1130

255'BCAB DATA 254,0,254,252,0,124,252,2,

127,0,255,62,0,127,128,64,

1410 1420 1430 1440 1450

1460

255,0,0,126,0,0,60,0,0'BWHD

1160

DATA

128,64,0,42,192,0,10,192,

:'ABHB REM *****

MACHINE

LANGUAGE'BUDH

1190

DATA

0,

24,

1200

DATA

1210

DATA

169,

32,

1220

15, DATA

141, 212,

24'BFWC 238, 65,

1230

DATA

1240

DATA

238, 208,

212,

4,

141,

1,

212,

169,

4,

212,

3,

DATA

8,

169,

0,

141,

65,

173,

66,

3,

205,

1490

DATA

126G

173, 248, 7'BDFG DATA 201, 192, 208,

169,

74,

85,

141,

192'BGUH

67,

3,

20,

176,

5,

169,

201,

21,

208,

45,

65, 67,

208 , —

**

«

f

0, *

224,

32,

3,

17, 32, 208'BFFF

210,

255,

236,

247 ,

141 ,

63,

56, 233, 158'BFAH

40 ,

165,

112,

98,

56,

233,

128,

176'BHLI 168,

173,

63,

3,

153,

56'BEPJ 233 , 15, 153, 191, 219 , 173, 208 , 201'BIUK 1, 240, 3, 76, 0, 192, 238, 7,

3'BACK 173 ,

68,

3,

169 'BDPL 0, 141, 62,

DATA

205,

62,

3 ,

208, 208,

3,

238,

39 ,

250,

240,

3,

39 'BDMD

208 ,

1520

192, :'ABHA

1530

REM

1540

DATA

1550

DATA

0,

*****

201,

76,

96,0,0,2040'BNSG CUSTOM

CHARACTERS 'BVCH

0,60,126,255,24,24,24,

24'BYAH 24, 16,16,108,254,254,124,

56'BCMI

3,

96,

169,

174,

98,

DATA

1560

DATA

1570

DATA

1580 1590

5,

201,

165 ,

1510

6'BALE

DATA

105,

208, 10, 174, 16, 240'BFKF 76, 167, 192, 173,

244 ,

191 ,

DATA

3,

66'BCSD

3,

24,

208,

224 'BGPE

224 ,

DATA

1480

33,

255'BEBD

208,

208,

245 , 32, 158, 224, 13 5, 176'BIOG

32,

173 ,

169,

173,

f

224,

1,

232 , 238, 1, 208, 24 8, 201'BHTL

3,

DATA

DATA

1500

212'BFGB

141,

173, 0, 0'BDVB

169 ,

DATA

1470

169,

0'BDSI

212,

1250

76,

DATA

15,

1180

141,

3,

-J

4, 240, 3, 76, 204, 192. 203, 192'BFYD DATA 1, 208, 250, 76, 204, 192, 162 , 0, 232'BFRE

62,

0'BBSF

141,

1,

U

DATA

31,

DATA

201,

DATA

201 ,

252,3,84,254,3,80,255,0,

141,

30,

,

J_

56 , 233'BELG DATA 8, 141, 0, 208, 173, 16. 208 , 20 1, l'BDSG DATA 208 , 12, 173, 0, 208, 201, 100 , 144 , 5 'BFEI DATA 169 , 0, 141, 16, 208, 201, 37, 208 , 17'BFWJ DATA 174 , 1, 208, 224, 50, 144, 10, 162 , 0'BEKK

3,

1150

1,

208 ,

DATA

208,

165,

16'BETD

208,

201 ,

0 "BABD

169,

224,

208,

7.

118'BEDK

208 ,

64,

1'BCOC

1170

16,

248.

164 ,

1060

DATA

174 ,

141,

208 , 1400

254'BCOD

1140

0,

141,

208 ,

:VP=50:SM=50:S=53248

:POKE

35, 174, 10'BFTJ

192 ,

DATA

DATA

208 , 208 ,

141,

DATA

1,

192,

76,

DATA

224

53272,(PEEK(53272)AND

POKE

DATA

0,

240)+12'EUBW 990

DATA

3,

1310

1+12544,0

55:READ

1280

169 ,

, 20i, 34'BHFI

203

8,

:NEXT'GNXP 1=0

DATA

62,

251'GABQ

7:POKE

1270

192 ,3,0,48,0,6,0,48'BTKI

126 ,129,16 5,129,153,165,129, 126' BGQL DATA 0,0 ,0,97,243,223,12,0' BVVK DATA 60, 126,255,255,255,255 ,126, 60'BELN

193, 1600

DATA

8,8 ,8,8,8,8,8,62'BQQC

END

COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

89


liYUUCKCHI].l>RISS

Pachyderm Panic for the Commodore 64 J\n elephant never forgets. How about you? Pachy

derm Panic is a chalk-using game for one or two players thai teen concentration and recall. The game begins by asking for the number of players

and their names, it will default to one player If nothing is entered. The delimit names are PLAYER l and PLAYER 2. Elghl elephants will then appear on the screen, waiting

to test your memory. The computer will randomly flash some

nl" them

and you must

match

the computer's

choices by pressing tlie corresponding number key.

You get one point lor even' correct match. It you correctly match all of the elephants, you receive a dou ble bonus. For example, if the computer chooses four elephants and you match them all, you get lour points plus a lour-point bonus.

If you match all the elephants, the game will then increase the number of choices by one. If you tail to match them all, you still receive one point tor each

correct match, but no bonus is awarded, and the pro gram then decreases the choices by one.

As an added challenge, there Is .1 time limit tor enter ing your choices. You have four seconds to match two,

eight seconds to match four, and so on. Should time run

An elephant neverforgets, but

how about you? Here's a game to test your concentration and recall

out. you forfeit the rest of your turn. You can change a selection by pressing any key ex

cept one through eight. This cancels your last entry and lets you make a new choice, When you have finished choosing, just wait. Pacyhderm Panic will see that you are

done and

check

your selections.

Don't

press

50

E$ = " [SPACE40]"'BCBH

60

F?="[DOWN2,RIGHT3]":V=54272

70

POKE

:P0KE :IF

RETURN or you'll erase your lasl answer.

NP=2

:GOSUB

A player wins by accumulating a minimum of SO or a

80

maximum of 1(10 points, depending on the level of play.

If two are playing, the game makes sure thai both players declared.

Q

GOSUB

THEN

500

GOSUB

820

350'HUAL 840:GOSUB

350:GOSUB

390

:R=1'EOOJ

90

have had the same number of turns before a winner is

L=L+l:T=L:H=L*2:Pl=T:P2=T:Y=L*25 :D=1'KBAS

100

REM

***

COMPUTER

110

FOR

J=l

TO

CHOOSES

***'BV0B

T'DDPX

LEVEL

MINIMUM

MAXIMUM

POINTS

120

N=INT(RND(l)*8)+1:A(J)=N'GOYE

Ot- PI AY

CHOICES

CHOICES

TO WIN

130

POKE

4

50

6

75

8

100

:IF 140

POKE

150 200 205

252,N:SVS THEN

49999+J,N:POKE

:S=A(J):G0SUB

49152

120'ICTI

P+38+N,l

1000'HBYJ

210 220

:NEXT J:GOSUB 1200:GOTO IF AS=""THEN 210'DFTA

340'LBBJ

PRINT"[CLEAR,BLACKJCHECKING DATA"; :F0R J=l TO 131:READ :NEXT J1IPRL

230

S=VAL(A$):IF

THEN

P.O. Ekn JIIIMF. Sinvqwri. IA 71130-0007,1 WHJ-831-2694

15

POKE

20

30

251,J:POKE PEEK(252)ON

GOSUB 395:NEXT J:GOSUB 700'DJUD REM *** PLAYER INPUT ***'BRGA TS=TI:TF=T*2:F0R J=l TO T :POKE 198,0'HTRK GET A$:IF(TI-TS)/60>=TF THEN J=T

Before (ypuifi Lhis ptugrjm, read "Him ro EUtK Pwffms' and "How tÂť 1'ic the Magazine Entry Program." The BASIC priijjrarns in this ma^im: art avaitaMc nn disk from Loadstar,

90

V+24,15:P=53248:X=0'GBOM 198,0:GOSUB

Pachyderm Panic 53280,12:POKE 53281,15'CRQG

IF XO14735 THEN ERROR":STOP'GHKG

A:X=X+A

PRINT" [SPACE2]

35

PRINT"[SPACE2]OK":RESTORE'CBIG

40

B$="[RIGHT3]":C$="[H0ME,D0WN4]" :D$ = " [HOME,DOWN19] '"DITF

APRIUMAV '86

J>1

THEN

:GOTO 240

IF

250

POKE

S<L

POKE

OR

S>8

IF

P+38+B(J-l),E:JaJ-l

210'RFNQ

S<1

OR

S>8

THEN

P+38+S,C:POKE

:GOSUB 1000;IF TO 75'LYFN

J-T

210'FHGE 198,0 THEN

FOR

1=1


GHI11E PR0GRHI11S/PACHYDERM PANIC 260

IF

PEEK(198)=1

PEEK(631)<49

AND

OR

J=T

NEXT

280

B(J)=S:NEXT

J:GOSUB

I=100:NEXT

300

REM

:POKE

I:POKE

198,0:GOTO

***

COMPARE

CALCULATE

X=0:FOR

THE

315

PRINT

J=l

J:IF

:GOSUB

320

325

700

650

POKE

660

:POKE P+6,248:POKE P+7,100'ICMP POKE P+8,48:POKE P+9,148

670

POKE

680

POKE

TO

690

POKE

X=0

X = X + 1'KSXM THEN

700

E=0'BCNC

1100:GOTO

710

FOR

720

:IF R=l THEN RETURN'LQVM PRINT"[CLEAR]":POKE P+21,255'DIJH

730

REM

SC=SC+T*2

350'JTQI

CSBS"[RVOFF,WHITE)

SAID:"CSTAB(17);

:FOR J = l

TO T:S=A(J)'GURP

P+38+S,l:PRINT

:GOSUB

395:NEXT

:GOSUB

395'JDOK

PRINT

DSBSKSPS"

:FOR J=l

P+2,112:POKE

S;:GOSUB

P+10,112:POKE

J:GOSUB

740

700

P+14,248:POKE

7 50

J=P-*-39

***

TO

P+23,255'EPMO

P+46:POKE

PRINT

NUMBERS

J,£:NEXT

IN

THE

PRINT"[BLACK,RVS,HOME,DOWNS, RIGHT6]1[RIGHT7]2[RIGHTS]3[RIGHT7]

PRINT"[RVS,DOWN5,RIGHT6]5JRIGHT7] 6[RIGHTS]7[RIGHT7]8[RVOFF]"'BAGL

335

SC=SC+T-X'DGW1

340

IF

350

PRINT

RETURN'FIXH

780

NEXT

355

GOSUB 700:GOSUB 395 :IF NP=1 THEN VS=SC:GOTO 370'HTXP IF D=l THEN VS=SC:GOTO 375'FKVI

800

REM

810

IF

820

PS=P2$:SC=HS:P2=T:T=P1:C=6 :K$ = " [BLUE] '"GYYO

VSOHS

8 30

SC$="[BLUE,HOME,RIGHT21,RVS]

800'GJWO

840

P$=P1S:SC=VS:P1=T:T=P2:C=2

850

:KS="[RED]"'GYFQ SCS="[RED,HOME,RIGHT4,RVS]"+Pl$+"

900

REM

910

PRINT

920

IF

930

:GOTO 94 0'HNWM C=6'BCRH

940

FOR

365 370

395:NEXT

T>L

THEN

JiGOSUB

1000

395'IYNK

SC$SC:IF

R=0

770

IF

VS> = Y

THEN

OR

HS> = Y

THEM

IF

IF

380

PRINT C$E$DSES:SYS IGOTO

THEN

D=-D:GOSUB

49174:GOSUB

390

100'EWJL

390

FOR

1=1

TO

500:NEXT

I:RETURN'FIDK

395

FOR

1=1

TO

200:NEXT

I:RETURN'FIAP

500

REM

***

NUMBER

510

NP*1:PRINT F$"NUMBER OF (1-2) "; UNPUT NP'DKPK

515

IF

AND

NAMES

OF

PLAYERS,

LEVEL,

**"'BLGJ

VAL(CHRS(NP+48))<1

VAL(CHR$(NP+48>) >2

OR

THEN

510'LVDR

ML

(KEEP

J=49152

TO

COMPUTER

INPUT)

***'BVHU

49189:READ

A

J,A'FRPO J:RESTORE:RETURN'DDOL

*** D=l

CHANGE THEN

SIDES

***'BRSG

840'DFTF

\

***

VICTORY

***'BNLG

C$E$DSES'BIHG

VS>HS

X=l

:NEXT

OR

TO

NP=1

THEN

C=2

3:E=C:GOSUB

1300

X'GNPN

L=1:PRINT FS"LEVEL: 1=EASY[SPACE2] 2=MEDIUM[SPACE2]3=HARD";

950

PRINT D$TAB(12)"[RVOFF,BLACK]"

:INPUT

960 970

GET AS:IF AS=""THEN 960'EIOH POKE P+21,0:RUN'DGUN

L'DIYM

IF

530

VAL(CHR$(L+48))>3 THEN 520'LTVR P1$="PLAYER 1":PRINT F$"NAME OF PLAYER 1 ";:INPUT PIS'DLCM

540

P1$=LEFT$(P1S,8)"CKUG

VAL(CHP.$(L+48) ) <1

NP=1

THEN

OR

600

P2S="PLAYER 2":PRINT F$"NAME OF PLAYER 2 ";:INPUT P2S'DLGP P2S=LEFT$(P2S,8)'CKWJ PRINT"[CLEARJSETTING UP"'BAZL REM *** SPRITES ***'BNPD

610

FOR

620

:NEXT J'FQAH FOR J=l TO 30:READ

630

FOR

J=832

TO

TO

580'DGEH

2047:POKE

1000

REM

ANY

***

PLAYER 1010

1020

IF

560

J=2040

PRESS

FOR

J,13

POKE FOR

A:NEXT

J'FING A

TO

OF

COMPUTER

AND

***'BKVO

23:POKE

V+1,0

I'GLWA V+6,240

V+4,211HTFD

1=1

TO

100:NEXT

I:POKE

V+4,20

:RETURN"HOPD

1100

REM ***SOUND AND VISUAL EFFECTS AFTER CORRECT INPUT ***'BTGG

1110

FOR

1=0

:NEXT

832+62:READ

SOUND

V+1,S+25:POKE

:POKE 1030

KEY"'CFCO

INPUT

1=0

:NEXT

550

580

FOR

LOAD

DUPLICATING

[SPACE2]":RETURN'EHIM

PLAYERS

525

570

***

"+P2$+"[SPACE2]":RETURN'EHTM

900'LNRP

NP=2

REM

:POKE

THEN

HS=SC'BEBJ

375

520

760

FROM

T=T-1'FFJF

J

***'BFNM

POKE

:GOSUB

S;:GOSUB

P+38,12'GUGQ P+29,255:POKE

330

360

P+38+S,C:PRINT

P+15,148'IGSS P+37,7

4""BAIK

SAID:"D$TAB(17};

TO T:S=B(J)'GYGO

P+ll,148'IDQR P+13,148

P+28,255:POKE

SPRITES

1000

P+3,100'HAAN

P+5,100

P+12,184:POKE

:POKE

T:IF

P+1,100

P+4,184:POKE

:POKE

AND

***'BNXH

ELEPHANT POKE

P,48:POKE

:POKE

210'HXOO INPUT

J'HRCK

POKE

P+38+S,E

SCORE

B{J)OA{J)THEN NEXT

I'EDBG

300'EPFJ

290

310

THEN

J,A:NEXT

640

:POKE

270

305

:POKE

IF

PEEK(631)>56

290'NATP IF J=T THEN :GOTO

THEN

1120

TO

23:POKE

V+1,0

I'GLWB

POKE

V+6,240:FOR

:FOR

1=1

TO

N=l

TO

T:B=1:GOSUB

2 1170'KWIH

COMMODORE POWER/PLAV

91


cnmEPROCRnms/pachyderm panic 1130

NEXT

I:FOR

:GOSUB

I=T

TO

1170:NEXT

1140

NEXT

N:FOB

:GOSUB

L170:NEXT

1150

IF

THEN

T<H

1=1

1

STEP-1:E=C

:NEXT

I'JQFG

TO

L360

T:E=1

FOR

I:IF

N=l

X<3

TO

THEN

100:NEXT

GOSOB700'KWEL N:RESTORE

:RETURN'GJBH

I'HPPF

1400

T=T+1'FFGO

REH

■**

VICTORY

TUNE

DATA

***"BVRD

1160

RETURN'BAQA

1170

POKE

1410

1180

FOR

1200

BEM

1210

FOR

1220

PRINT C$TAB{11)"[BLACK]SORRY, TIMES UP.'"CFTE

1520

DATA

POKE

1530

224,179,255,224,176'BVIJ DATA 19 5,2 2 4,17 6,24 3,224,176,24 3, 234,176,3,234,176'BUSK

1540

DATA

1550

240,2,162,160'BOLJ DATA 2,162,160,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,

V+4,21:POKE

:POKE

P+38+B(I),E

TO

5:NEXT

1420 N1:POKE

V+4,20 1430

BUZZER

(TIMES

UP)

:NEXT

1230

TO

V+23:POKE

1,0

V+1,7:POKE

V+6,130

V+4,33'GRLF

1240

GOSUB

395:POKE

1300

REM

•**

VICTORY

TUNE

***'BRVA

1310

FOR

I=V

TO V+23:POKE

I,0:NEXT

POKE

1330

FOR

V+4,32:RETURN'EKOD

V+5,30:POKE

REM

1510

DATA

I

710'FRQE

1=1

TO

**•

SPRITE

DATA

***'BQXC

5,0,0,10,0,0,85,80,0,63,192,

6:READ

V+1,A:POKE

1600

REM

1610

DATA

1620

DATA

POKE

V,A1:POKE

1350

:POKE V+7,A3:FOR N=l TO NEXT N-.POKE V+4,32:POKE

A GIFTED CHILD DO YOU HAVE ONE?

3,213,112,3,255,240,3,243,

***

ML

DATA

***'BMLC

160,0,165,252,217,80,195,

240,8,200,196'BNPH

A,Al,A2,A3,A4

:POKE V+4,33:POKE V+11,17'IFAK 1340

59,234,188,255,234,191,255,

0'BCUI

V+6,85'KXNI

V+12,85:POKE V+13,85

:GOSUB

62,31,165,50,50,60,37,162,

0,59,234,128'BPDH

:POKE

1320

DATA

1500

I'GLKC

:POKE

62,31,165,50,50,60,37,162,

165'BEAG

***'BVDA I=V

DATA

130,42'BHNF

:RETURN'HOGJ ***

25,30,18,209,50,33,135,25,

30,50,42'BJCF

V+l,1+25"IWPL

Nl=l

DATA

251,240,7,76,4,192,169,0,

133,252,96'BKAI

V+8,A2

A4'KBDM V+11,16

1630

DATA

160,0,169,0,153,80,195,200,

192,8,240,3,76,26,192,96'BBRM

END

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G4 USERS 011LV

A

ItYR. UAHOI.l) OKOI1)

Memgraph

eleven bytes to describe the array and two to five bytes for each element,

for the

depending on the type of variable in

Commodore 64

volved.

Unless

volved,

these areas are relatively

huge

arrays are

in

small. You may be surprised, (hough,

Get a graphic

at how fast the string space fills dur

representation of how much memory your program is using murk of programming efficien

are easily changed. The. color codes

start

at

address 52194

background,

border,

and

text,

affect

and

the

ing some programs.

Mere's how strings are handled by

the 64. When you create a siring vari

block colors for program lext, varia

able,

bles, array's, free space, and strings.

places-, a pointer to the location of the

The program entitled "Modify BAX'"

string in the variables area, and the

will

load the machine-language file,

actual string text in the string area.

alter it. and save a new version to disk

I'nlike the other areas, which 111! from

cy is how well the computer's avail

with

able space is used. Here's a program

graphics.

improved

black-and-white

Information

is stored

in two

the bottom of memory up, the com

puter builds the string area From the

thai gives you a graphic representa

Bach tilled space represents a block

tion of how much memory your pro

of 256 bytes. After a program loads

gram is gobbling up ;iiul what sort of

and before it runs, only the program

The screen display is set up for a

information the computer is putting

text area is colored in. As it proceeds,

color monitor and looks washed-out

there. BASIC divides its 38K of avail

the other areas begin to fill. Simple

on a monochrome monitor. Color

able space in the Commodore 64 Into

variables, numeric or integer, require

codes tor the graphic screen are in a

five areas; program lexi, variables, ar

seven

table at the end of the program and

bytes.

ray variables, free space, and string space, [i keeps track of where each

seven

to

the

entire color RAM copied to the RAM

non-maskable interrupt (nmi) of the

underlying BASIC. The VIC chip is set

With

Commodore 64. In contrast to the

to see the screen memory at (A000,

Memgraph enabled, press the SHIFT

maskable interrupt, which calls the

also under the BASK' kernal. We write

and RESTORE keys together to check

keyboard scan and updates the clock,

the graph screen text to

these pointers and view a graphic dis

the nmi cannot be disabled, since the

screen, fill the graph area with graph

RESTORE key is connected directly to

ic characters (screen code 207, re

variables are

created

or

When

take

Memgraph Program Notes

section begins and ends via a table of

pointers at addresses 4$-52.

Arrays

top of memory down,

abled again with SYS5H56.

changed,

these pointers change, too.

play of BASIC

memory.

Press the

SHIFT key to resume the program. Memgraph

Memgraph wedges itself into

the

microprocessor chip.

One

can,

the new

versed shifted O's), and fall to the next

is a machine-language

however, affect the results of an nmi

program which starts at 31456, This is in an upper area of the free RAM

by changing vectors. In the case of

Drawing the graph itself is quite

Memgraph, the nmi vector at S318 is

straightforward. We subtract each

that Starts at the familiar address of

changed, and points to the graphing

BASIC pointer from the value of the

â– t*)| 12. The location is high enough to

routine.

pointer above; it and write that many bytes of color code to the color RAM.

avoid conflicts with BASIC programs

which have supporting machine-lan guage

routines.

However,

it

also

routine.

Program Notes

Tile

First, a flag is checked. This flag is the graph routine is

x-register

keeps

track of how

many bytes of an individual color are

leaves enough room above to hold

set whenever

the standard DOS wedge.

running; it keeps Memgraph from in

required, while the y-register keeps

track of where we are on ihe screen.

Tilt' "Memgraph Loader" program

terrupting itself. Then, by writing to

When the y register reaches the end

creates the machine-language file on

and reading from the control ports

of a line, 40 is added lo the screen

disk. Once the loader is typed in and

that read the keyboard, we check the

pointer to drop to the next row. Each

saved, you're ready to use the pro

SHIF1' key. Doing it this way, instead

reverse space on the screen corre

gram,

of using

sponds to one 256-bytc boundary in

so

type

LOAD

"MEM-

the kernal keyboard scan,

GRAPH",8,1 to put the program into

makes snrc that we don't foul up any

computer memory.

BASIC input. If the flag is set or the

The program then "idles" while the

graph will change the BASIC pointers,

SHUT key is not pressed, we jump

SHUT keys are checked. First, we

so type NEW to reset them. Now, type SYS51456 to put Memgraph into op

directly to

routine

make sure the key has been released

(which checks the stop key, checks

and then wail until it's been pressed

eration. The graph is available at any

for an auto-start cartridge and per

again. That's the signal to copy all the

time by pressing SHIFT/RESTOSE, To

forms RS-232 I/O).

color codes back, reset the VIC chip

Loading

disable Memgraph, use the

Mem

RUN-

the

kernal

nmi

If our conditions arc met, the ker

the BASIC work area.

to see the BASIC screen, zero the tlag,

STOP/RESTORE combination. From a

nal ROM is banked out, background

and continue the nmi routine, which

warm reset, the program can be en-

and border colors are saved and the

returns to BASIC. COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

Q 93


G4 USERS OIHV/MEMGRAPH When a siring is redefined, it's not removed from memory. The new

garbage collections are taking your computer out to lunch.

cause the program uses the BASIC

string is just tacked unto the bottom

Because Memgrapb runs off the RE-

part of the program must be in BASIC.

of the string area and

the

pointers to draw the graph, at least

pointer

STOR1: key interrupt and uses its own

Memgraph has some very practical

Changed. So the top part Of the String

keyboard scan to cheek the SHUT

uses if you're designing a program

text area is filled with old strings thai

key. you'll find very few programs it

which uses large arrays and manipu

are no longer needed. When the com-

won't be able to cheek up on and leap

lates lots of strings, like a data base,

puter runs out of room, a "garbage

back

screen

You can get a good handle on how

collection" goes through the string

hides under the BASIC ROM to keep

large an array you can create and how

space looking for those old strings

it from interfering with the BASIC dis-

many strings can he active before you

which are mi longer defined, deletes

play, and the color HAM is copied and

encounter an "out of memory" incs-

them, and crunches the active strings into the top of memory.

restored with every viewing. The only programs which cause problems

sage and an hnur of data entry goes down (he tube.

\\ hen you're dealing with large

are those that do their own doctoring

fiut even if you don't write pro-

programs which use lots of variables

on the RESTORE key interrupt. For

grams that strain your computer's ca-

and many active strings, garbage col-

instance.,

sometimes a programmer

pacity, type Memgraph in and watch

lections can eat processing time. If

will disable the RUN-STOP/RESTORE

it run on a couple of programs, You'll

Memgraph shows your string space

combination,

Instantly gel a better handle on how

alternately nudging against the arrays

POKE792,193- You can rcenable it

the 64

and leaving one or two blocks free,

with POKE792.71. And of course, be-

sources.

into.

The

Memgraph

usually

P.O.Bo* J0007, Shrettpott, U "1130-0007, L-B0O-8J1-26SH

30 35 36 37 40

FOR

A=51456

TO

52201:READ

DATA

51576 51584

B

:POKE A,B:CHK=CHK+B:NEXT" IBRI IF CHKO90580 THEN PRINT"ERROR IN DATA STATEMENTS":END'GJYL POKE 43,0:POKE 44,201:POKE 45,0 :POKE 46,203'EXCK SAVE"MEMGRAPH",8,1'BEXI SYS 58260'BFMH END'BACA

51456

DATA DATA

169,16,141,24,3,169,201,

25,3,169,0,141,234,203, 72,138,72,152,72,173,234,

DATA

208,5,32,250,202,176,3,

51496 51504 51512

DATA

160,13,185,74,203,41,63,

153"BCHB 51608

DATA

92,160,136,16,245,160,17,

185'BDQJ 51616

DATA

88,203,41,63,153,130,160,

136'BDGI 51624

DATA

16,245,160,11,185,106,203,

41'BDYH 51632

DATA

63,153,60,162,136,16,245,

160'BDJG 51640

DATA

8,185,118,203,41,63,153,

100'BCEF

51648

DATA 162,136,16,245,160,5,185, 127'BDON

DATA 76,254,169,1,141,234,203, 165'BDOP

51656

DATA

DATA 1,41,254,133,1,173,33, 208'BAYO

51664

DATA 141,235,203,173,32,208,141, 236'BFUF DATA 203,169,216,141,81,201,141,

51672

DATA

201,169,184,141,84,201,169,

203,41,63,153,140,162,136,

16"BDAM DATA

245,160,9,185,133,203,41,

63'BCKL DATA

153,180,162,136,16,245,160,

6'BDJK 51680

95'BEBE

51520

208,169,132,141,24,208,173,

51600

76'BAIH

51488

DATA

DATA 221,41,252,9,1,141,0, 221'BYPL

203'BDNI

51480

DATA

185,143,203,41,63,153,220,

162'BEWK

51688

DATA 136,16,245,160,24,185,150, 203'BEZS

DATA 141,89,201,162,4,160,0, 185'BBFK

51696

DATA

51536

DATA

51704

DATA

51544

153"BBGJ DATA 0,160,173,228,203,153,0,

51712

153'BDGG DATA 79,163,136,16,245,160,28,

51552

216'BCVI DATA 200,208,236,202,240,15,238,

51720

DATA 197,203,41,63,153,157,163, 136'BELF

51560

DATA

51728

DATA

160'BFHD 51528

0,216,153,0,184,169,32,

201,238,84,201,238,89,201,

94

APRIUMAY'86

95,201,76,77,201,173,226,

160,21,185,175,203,41,63,

185'BDBF

238'BEKH

DATA

41,63,153,39,163,136,16,

24 5'BCQQ

81'BEUI

51568

Q

141,33,208,173,227,203,141,

51592

96'BAIJ

51472

DATA

0'BDGM

141'BCGK 51464

uses and manages its rc-

32'BETO

Me digraph Loader 20

a

203'BDOO

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with

16,245,169,207,160,18,153,

210'BEEN 51736

DATA

160,153,250,160,153,34,161,


G4 USERS OflLV /MEMGRAPH 153'BFTM 51744

DATA

51752

DATA

51760

DATA

161"BFAL

51776 51784

DATA

51792

DATA

230'BFGQ

51808

DATA DATA

51824

DATA

51832

DATA

51840

52008

DATA 153,210,212,200,202,192,19, 240'BFHF

52016

DATA

52024

DATA 173,41,203,24,105,40,141, 41'BCQC

52032 52040

DATA 203,104,144,224,238,42,203, 76'BEXC DATA 36,203,42,42,32,77,69,

52048

DATA

52056

42lBXUH DATA 66,89,32,82,46,32,72,

52064

DATA

77'BYXA

82,79,76,68,32,68,82,

79'BXZG 52072

DATA

173,229,203,32,36,203,165,

48'BDNJ

71,82,65,80,72,32,42,

65'BXGH

160,0,165,46,56,229,44,

170'BBOK

4,76,36,203,96,160,0,

72'BXTC

141,42,203,169,210,141,41,

203'BELM

141,0,220,96,224,0,240,

12'BAOC

173,233,203,141,218,218,

169,216'BGGE

51816

DATA

138,218,173,232,203,141,

178,218'BGIO DATA

52000

203,141,98,218,173,231,203,

141 'BFXP

240,3,24,144,1,56,169,

127'BAJP

229,141,58,162,141,98,162,

141'BEMJ DATA 138,162,141,178,162,141, 218,162'BGHR DATA 173,229,203,141,58,218,173,

51800

DATA

153,194,161,153,234,161,

136,16'BFFK

51768

51992

74,161,153,114,161,153,154,

73,68,80,82,79,71,82,

65'BXOF 52030

DATA 77,32,84,69,88,84,86, 65'BXAE

32'BDJI DATA 36,203,165,50,56,229,46,

52088

DATA

170'BCSH

52096

DATA

52104

69"BXSL DATA 69,32,83,80,65,67,69,

52112

DATA

56,229,46,170,173,230,203,

51848

DATA 173,231,203,32,36,203,165, 52'BDBP

51856

DATA

56,229,50,170,173,232,203,

32'BDGO

82,82,65,89,83,70,82,

83'BXQB

51864

DATA

36,203,165,56,56,229,52,

170'BCTN DATA 173,233,203,32,36,203,32,

52120

51872

250'BDVM

52128

51880

DATA

51888

DATA

51896

DATA

51904

84,82,73,78,71,83,69,

65'BXTA DATA

67,72,32,66,76,79,67,

75'BXUF DATA

32,82,69,80,82,69,83,

69'BXQH

202,176,251,32,250,202,144,

251'BFPM

82,73,65,66,76,69,83,

65'BXUM

52136

DATA

78,84,83,32,50,53,54,

66'BXEG

165,1,41,254,133,1,160, 52144

DATA

0'BAGS DATA 185,153,0,217,185,0,186,

52152

32'BXPF DATA 70,73,76,76,69,68,32,

153'BCOI

52160

77'BXSE DATA 69,77,79,82,89,80,82, DATA

0'BYTT 185,0,184,153,0,216,185,

89,84,69,83,32,79,70,

69'BXGD

51912

DATA

52168

51920

219'BAJH DATA 200,208,229,173,0,221,9,

0,218,185,0,187,153,0,

3'BAAG DATA 141,0,221,173,235,203,141,

52176

51928

33'BDPO DATA 208,173,236,203,141,32,208,

52184

DATA

51936

52192

51944

169'BFFO DATA 20,141,24,208,165,1,9,

82'BXNJ DATA 65,77,0,0,7,1,5,6'BRTG

52200

DATA

51952

l'BXEL DATA 133,1,169,0,141,234,203,

51960

DATA

51968

220'BBWK DATA 208,248,169,191,141,0,220,

51976

173'BEFT DATA 1,220,201,239,240,15,169,

51984

DATA

76'BBCL 76,254,173,1,220,205,1,

253'BDBR 141,0,220,173,1,220,201,

127'BCHQ

83,83,32,83,72,73,70,

84'BXDL DATA

32,84,79,32,82,69,83,

85'BXOK 77,69,32,80,82,79,71,

12,2'BERA Modify B/W

IF ?LAG=1 THEN 10'DHSF 5 FLAG=1:LOAD"MEMGRAPH",8,1'CKCI 10 FOR A=52194 TO 52201:READ B 4

:POKE

A,B:NEXT'GSKE

20 25

DATA POKE

10,10,0,0,7,6,1,0'BRQB 43,0:POKE 44,201:POKE 45,0

30

SAVE"MEMGRAPH

40

SYS

:POKE

46,203'EXCJ

58260'BFMB

B/W",8,1'BECD EBD COMMODORE POWER/PUW

95


G4 USERS OniV

BY JONATHAN RODDA

care must be taken not lo change any

56 Sprites

of the other seven hits.

The interrupt that is generated by

for the

writing to registers 53266 and 53265 will cause a jump

Commodore 64

Rasiister

to the address

specified in the interrupt vector (lo

cation 788 ( S0314 ) and 789 (10315)). 'Hie address is stored in

interrupts arc a very inter

low-byte/

high-byte format. To calculate

esting and powerful feature of the Commodore 64. The program at the mil of this article will demonstrate

high

and low byte for an address, divide the address by 256. The quotient is the high byte and the remainder is the

how raster Interrupts can be used to

low byte. For example, to calculate

display 56 sprites on the screen si

the high and low byte of address

multaneously. Among some of the

49152. divide 49152 by 256. You will

things you will be able to do when

i.e.

you use raster interrupts arc: display

get a quotient of 192 (high byte) and

several background eolors on the same screen, display bit-mapped

Using raster-

a remainder ol zero (low byte). When

graphics and text simultaneously, and

interrupt routines,

terrupts must he disabled; otherwise.

allow the VIC II chip to access more than one 16K bank of memory at the same time.

To

understand

bow

raster

inter

rupts work, you need to know a little bit about the way a picture is dis

changing the Interrupt vector, die In

you can have 56

the system will crash. To disable in terrupts,

sprites on-screen all at once.

poke

register

56333

(SI)COD) with 127. To enable inter rupts, poke register 56333 with zero.

Two other Important registers are 53274 (SDOlA)and 53273 ( SD0I9). Kegisler

played on a television or monitor. The

5327-1

tells

the computer

picture lube has a screen at one end

raster has been scanned, the beam

which of the following four interrupts

and an electron gun at (be other. The

starts scanning the next raster line.

it should recognize. Each type of in

inside surface of the screen is coated

There are a total of 263 raster lines, of

terrupt is indicated by a one in the

with

which only 200 (raster lines 50 to 249)

appropriate bit of register 53274, as

are in the visible area of the screen.

shown below:

a

phosphor

compound

that

glows for a fraction of a second when an electron beam strikes it. The elec

The picture on the screen is drawn

Hit 0

finable raster compare

tron beam from the gun scans the

60 times each second. This drawing

screen at a constant speed, very much

process can he interrupted by what is

like a machine gun that fires a steady

called a raster interrupt. As the name

stream of bullets, line by line, across a

implies, it interrupts the screen-iiraw-

Hit 2

Enable spritc-to-sprite IRQ

target. In the picture tube, however,

ing process for a moment, performs a

Hit 3

Enable light pen IRQ

small electric charges called electrons

different operation, and then contin

are used rather than bullets.

ues the screen-drawing from where it

a one should he put in the bit corre

left off.

sponding to the interrupt desired.

The Registers

interrupt that has occurred. It is set

The signal that makes up the pic ture is led to the electron gun. The gun then sends out a beam of elec trons in accordance with the picture

IRQ

Hit I

Unable spritc-to-background IRQ

To set an Interrupt Request (IRQ),

Register 53273 returns the type of Raster-interrupt

routines

always

signal. The phosphor dots that arc hit

use registers 53265 (SD0I1), and

by the beam are turned on, and start

53266 ( SDO12). These registers have

to glow, while the others do not. It is

two functions. When they arc read,

this process of turning the phosphor

they return the current position of

dois on and off thai makes the picture

the raster beam, and when they are

visible.

written to, an interrupt occurs if the

up in the same way as register 53274. Hit 0

Has raster compare IRQ been set?

Hit I

lias sprite-to-back ground IHQ been BCt?

Hit 2

Has sprite-to-sprite IRQ been set?

The phosphor dots on the screen

raster line being scanned is equal to

make up horizontal lines of pixels

the values in these registers. Since the

{picture elements), and the number of

last visible raster line is line 262. the

pixels determines the resolution of the screen. The Commodore 64 has a

largest possible value for a raster line

A one in die specified bit means

is 262. However, a register can bold

that an interrupt has occurred, a zero

resolution of 320 pixels across and

only a maximum value of 255, which

200 pixels down. A horizontal line of

is why two registers (registers 53266

means it has not. Alter this register has been read, a one must be written

pixels is called a raster, and, in the

and 53265) are needed to store the

back to the same bit to clear it. Other

case of the 64, contains 320 pixels.

raster value. Actually, only the eighth

wise the computer will constantly in

Each raster is scanned from left to right by the electron beam. After a

hit of register 53265 is used. There

terrupt itself, and will appear lo have

fore,

crashed.

96

APRI1VMAV86

when

selling

register

53265.

Hit 3

Has a light pen IRQ been set?

Hit 7

Has any IRQ been set?


G4U5ER50IUV/SPRITES gram at the end of this article (Listing 1). The I3ASIC; loader program has two

Figure I.

parts: The firsi part sets up a row of

o-

eight sprites on raster line 50, the

Invisible Area

50-

second

U LJ U U UTJUU

7078-

part reads the

machine-lan

guage program, represented as data statements,

into

memory. The

ma

chine-language program handles the

n

Interrupts and moves the sprites from row

to

row.

When you type in Listing I, be sure

lo type in the data Statements accu rately, since they represent the ma

218-

-□

LJ-

249-

chine-language

interrupt

program.

Save the BASIC program on tape or disk before running it, so if the system

invisible Area

does crash because of a typing error

262-

in the data statements, the saved pro gram can be reloaded and the typo corrected without having to retype

The Program

en different positions during even'

the whole program.

To display 56 sprites OD the screen,

screen update (once even' 60th of a

Although the program displays 56

a row uf sprites is first set up with the top of each sprile at raster line 50

second). Since the position of the

sprites, it is possible to display more.

sprites changes so rapidly, the images

In fact, it is possible to display a row

(see Figure

1 ). Since the Y coordi

Of the previous sprites do not have

of eight sprites on every raster line.

nates of the sprites have the same val

enough lime to fade mil before the

This, however, is not very impressive,

ues as the raster beam, its value will

screen is redrawn. It is important to

because the rows of Sprites will oxer-

now be 50. Each subsequent row of

understand that the computer can

lap each oilier.

sprites is programmed to appear 28

only generate eight sprites at any giv

lines below the previous row. This is

en time. but. because the image of

powerful one. You should use it to

to ensure that the sprites :tre uniform

previous

the

experiment, and in doing so you will

ly spaced and clearly visible. The sec

screen for a fniciion of a second, it

understand how spectacular displays

ond row. therefore, appears on line

gives the impression that 56 sprites

are created for video games. One

78, the third on line 106, and so on,

are being displayed at one time.

word of advice: Interrupt programs

until the seventh and final row ap

must be written in machine language

pears on raster line 218. You can set

Let us see how the above theory can be used in a program to sec 56

that the rows of sprites appear in sev

sprites. Type in the BASIC loader pro-

with the speed of interrupts.

sprites

Bdore typing this pwgratii, real "How w hllrr Programs" mi) "(low Hi I« Ihc Mj iiniiy Program" The HASH; jKiiRrjni* in this 'i.i»™ .in .■.i.uLi'ii ■■'! duLtnim !"'■'•;.'.-

remains on

120 130

FOR

140 150 160

:NEXT'G0DE FOP T=0 TO 15 STEP A=A+32:NEXT'DFEC FOR T=0 TO 98:READ

170

IF

180

:ST0P'GHDK PRINT CHRSU47) :SYS (49152) : END ' EOCI

110

:P0KE

1000 1010

1020

TO

DATA DATA

THEN

1080

V+T,A'GKUF

018 ,208,141,254,207,096, 001 ,141,025,208,173,018, 205 ,254,207,208,039,024, 028 ,201,246,208,002,169,

DATA

141 ,018,208,141,254,207,

141'BCEG 1090

X:Y=Y+X

PRINT"DATA

Q

050'BCFF

DATA

001 ,208,141,003,208,141,

005'BCNH

49152+T,X:NEXT'JUCL

Y.O12236

because BASIC is too slow to cope

105'BCIE

832+T,255 2 : POKE

very

208'BCBD

DATA

62:POKE

a

169'BCXC

:NEXT'GN0D

T=0

is

DATA 001 ,141,026,208,169,050, 141'BCYB DATA

PRINT CHR5(147)CHR$(5 "PLEASE WAIT ..":POKE 53280, :P0KE 53281, 'FARG A=30:V=53248 POKE V-5-21,255'ESDC FOR T=0 TO 7 POKE 2040+T,t

interrupt function

16 9'BCGA 1030

BASIC Loader

100

The

1100

ERROR"

DATA

208 ,141,007,203,141,009,

208 "BCFY.

141 ,011,208,141,013,208,

1110

DATA

DATA 169,027,141,017,208,169, 127'BCWX DATA 141,013,220,169,034,141, 020'BCRY

1120

141'BCQA DATA 015 ,208,173,013,220,041,

DATA 003,169,192,141,021,003,

1140

001'BCNB 1130

DATA

240 ,003,076,049r234,076,

188'BCVC

DATA

254 'BDEY

END COMMODORE POWEWPWY

97


64 USERS 0I1LV

BY STEPHEN IIODDA

Disk Utility

ceptable. Tlie name and I!) are used for

for the Commodore 64

identification

purposes and

are

displayed when the director)- is load

ed. The program asks if it is OK to continue. Type Y. and the disk in the

drive will

k housekeeping is probably one Of the most tedious task.s in comput ing. A lot of time is spent renaming,

spacebar again,

copying, ami scratching programs.

.

be formatted. Any other

character will ignore the format com

tag from where it left off, press the

mand and will display the main menu. Scratch: Scratching a file erases it

Validate: A disk may be inefficient

from the disk and makes available the

"Disk Utility" simplifies ;md speeds up

ly used if programs are repeatedly

space thai it occupied. To scratch a

all these housekeeping functions, it is

saved and scratched on it. When a

file, press F-i. The program will ask for

a user friendly, menu driven program,

program is scratched, the space it oc

the name of the file 10 scratch. Type

useful not only to the novice but to

cupied hecomes available. If a shorter

the file name and press RETURN.

the experienced programmer, as well.

program is now saved in [his free area,

When the program asks if it is OK to

The Disk Utility program provides

part of the area may still be available,

continue, press Y to scratch the file.

but may be too small to accommo

Any other character will ignore the

from a main menu. When a function is

date another program. Consequently,

scratch command and will display the

accessed, the name of the function is

the space remains unused, The vali

main

displayed in the top left corner of the

date

scratch

screen in reverse video, so that you

grams on the disk, so that free space

print a I-li.ES SCRATCHED error. The

always know thai function is current

for more program storage is made

number

right

of the words

ly in use.

available. As a general guide, die vali

"files scratched" will

indicate how

If at any time after a function is

date function takes up to two minutes

manv files were erased.

ten functions

which

are accessed

function

reorganizes

the

pro

menu.

After completing the

function, the program to

the

will

invoked, you decide not to proceed

to validate a full disk. To validate a

It is possible to scratch one file at a

any further, a built-in feature will ask

disk, press the 1-3 key. You will be

lime or groups of files using "wild

(just after the last bit of data to he

asked if it is OK to conlinue. Type Y,

cards." For example, if a disk contains

input) whether you wish to continue.

and the disk in the drive will be vali

programs

If you wish to continue, key in Y. Any

dated. Be careful when using this

COT," "GAMES.2 and 'ALPHABET,"

Other key

function. If a sequential, relative, or

enter "A*" (without the quotes) when

will slop

further action

called

"APPLE,"

"APRI

within the current function and re

user file was previously written and

the program asks for the name of the

turn you to the main menu.

the Hie was not closed, validating will

file to be scratched. All files beginning

There arc further safeguards for those functions that can cause irre

erase Ihe flic.

with "A" will be scratched. All other

versible damage to the contents of a

the FJ key. The program will ask tor

disk. To call these functions, the shift

the new name and the old name of

key must be pressed together with

the file you want to change. Renam

with the scratch function. For exam

the appropriate function key. For ex

ing only lias to write a few characters

ple, if the files on a disk are "ADC."

ample, when you wisli to access the

on

"ACC," and

disk formatting function, you must press the shift key and the F2 key at

mately two seconds.

the same

fore

time.

In addition, help

Renaming: To rename a file, press

the disk and

Instructions:

As

this article,

intact.

Pattern matching can also be used

"ADC," enter

â– A?C"

(without the quotes) as the file name. mentioned

the

be

All three files will be scratched. The

utility has

question mark replaces the unknown

screens are built into the program to

built-in help screens. To see the first

character, and can be used as many

explain what each

help screen, press F7. To continue to

times as required. To fully understand

These screens are accessed by press

the next help screen press the space

how wild cards and pattern matching

ing the F7 key. Type in Disk Utility

bar. Format:

work, refer to the 15-i I user's manual.

function docs.

in

this lakes approxi

files, for example GAMIiS, will be left

and see how easy it is to use. Hut, to he on the safe side, be sure to save the

when using a new disk or erasing an

allows

program before you run it.

old disk. It creates the directory and

without erasing any of the files on the

Disk Utility Functions

the Block Availability Map (BAM). It

disk. To use this function, press F6.

also puts block and timing markers, a

The

name, and an ID on the disk. Be extra

name. Type the new name and press

displays the director)- on the screen,

careful when formatting a disk, be

RETURN. When the program asks if it

including the disk name and ID, the

cause formatting erases all informa

is OK to continue, type Y, and the

blocks occupied by a file, file name,

tion on the disk.

name will

View the Directory: This function

file type, and ihe number of free

Formatting is

necessary

To formal a disk press F2, The pro

Change Disk Name: This function a disk

name

program will

to be changed

ask for

the new

be changed. Any other

character will abort the function and

blocks. To view a directory, press the

gram will ask for a name and ID. Any

Fl function key. If you wish to pause

name may be used, as long as it is 16

Change Disk ID: Changing the

while

characters or less in length, and any

disk's ID works in a similar way to

II) that is two characters long is ac

changing the disk name, except that

the directory is being listed,

press the spacebar. To restart the list9S

APRIUMAY'86

display the main menu.


G4 USERS OIHV /DISK UTILITY copy sequential or user files.

here the ID is changed, To change the

destination disk. Insert the disk you

ID, press VS. The program will now

To use the copy function, press C at

ask for a two-character n> to be en tered. Do so and press RETURN. The

the main menu. The program will ask

RETURN, The file will he duplicated

for the name of the file to copy. Type

on the destination disk.

want to copy the file on to, and press

program will ask it" it Is OK to contin

in the name and press RETURN. The

Exit: Any time you are in the main

ue. Type V, and the II) of the disk in

program will then ask for the file type-

menu, you can press X to exit the

The drive will be changed. Any other

to be entered. The file type is either a

program and return to BASIC The

key will abort the "change ID" func

P, S, or U (program, sequential, or user), If you are not .sure what the file

program will not be erased, so to re

type is, look for it when you load the

Disk Utility. If you get a disk error

NO blocks in length to be copied

directory.

when using one of the functions, it

from one disk to anothet. The copy

right of tile tile name. The file will

will be displayed on the screen.

function can copy any BASIC or ma

now be read from

everything works properly, the pro

chine-language program. It can also

drive. The program will ask for the

tion, and will display the main menu. Copy: "Copy" allows any file under

It will be located to the the disk in the

Entry Program," The BASK; program in Ihis magazine are available ;>n disk from Loadstar,

l'.o. Box .((i(i()". Shrevepoft LA 7113MQO7,1 BOO-SSMfiW,

Disk Utility OPEN

12

GOSUB

GOSUB

72 74

:GOTO 262'FLFI PRINT#15,"V":G0T0 168'CHBH PRINT VS"INSTRUCTIONS[RVOFF]"'BCCM

76

PRINT"[DOWN]FORMATTING,

78

GIVES IT A PRINT" AND

262'CHDB

14

PRINT"[CLEAR]"'BATC

16

OPEN

18

SYS

20 22 24

CLOSE l'BBIX PRINT"[DOWN]PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"'BAOH GET K$:IF KS=""THEN 24'EHDG

26

GOTO

28

INPUT#15,AS,B$:IF VAL(A$)<>0 THEN 32:NT"[CLEAR]"AS","BS:GOSUB 18 4 :GOTO 262'IGWS

1,8,0,"50":GOSUB 49386:GOSUB

28'CJQG

28'CIUH

80

PRIHT"FILES

82

PRINT"[DOWN]SCRATCHING ERASES

262'BDJF

30 32

RETURN'BAQY PRINT"[CLEAR]"AS","B$:CLOSE

34 36

:GOSUB 184:GOTO 262'EOPG PRINT V$"FORMAT[RVOFF]"'BCQG PRINT"[DOWN]ENTER NEW DISK NAME. :GOSUB

38 40

INFORMATION

ID.

42 44

PRINT#15,"N0:"+HS+","+I$

THEN

PRINT

VS"SCRATCH[RVOFF]"'BCFJ

PRINT"[DOWN]ENTER

50

GOSUB

52

PRINT#15,"S0:"+HS:GOSUB

54

PRINT

56

PRINT"[DOWN]PLEASE

58 60 62 64 66

68

FILE

THEN

PRINT"WASTED

THE ";

96

";:GOSUB

TO

THE

ONE

YOU

A

DISK,

FILES"'BAQP

GETS

RID

OF

SPACE. EXTRA

";'BBRL

THIS

USABLE

SPACE

ON

DISK."'BADB

PRINT"[DOWNJVIEWING

A

DIRECTORY,

THE"'BADU

PRINT"DIRECTORY.

";'BBYQ

104

FOR

262'FLFH

ERASE:

W=0:GOTO

X=1824

:POKE

";

TO

1863:POKE

X,99

X+54272,2:NEXT'HYKI

PRINT"[DOWN3]PRESS

ANY

KEY

TO

108

GET

110 112

IF P=l THEN P=0:GOTO 262'FISA PRINT"[CLEAR,DOWN,RVS)PAGE 2

114

PRINT"[DOWN]CHANGING THE NAME, CHANGES THE"'BARJ

ENTER

NEW

ENTER

OLD

MAY

KS=""THEN

108'EIDH

NAME

116

PRINT"CURRENT

NAME

118

SPECIFIED. '"BAGK PRINT"[DOWN]CHANGING CHANGES THE"'BARN

244'CFYR

MINUTES"'BAOU

K$:IF

[RVOFF]"'BALB

262'FLFG

168'DJBH

244:Y=0'ELOS

PRINT"[DOWN]VALADATING TWO

WITH

102

GOSUB 184:IF W THEN W=0:GOTO 262'FLFH 120 PRINT#15,"R0:"+JS+"="+HS'EHEI 122 GOTO 168'BDOH PRINT V$"VALADATE!RVOFF]"'BCOL TO

FILE,

PRINT"YOU MAY PAUSE IT WITH THE'"BAEC PRINT"SPACE BAR."'BAXA

V$"RENAME [RVOFF] 1MBCYI

PRINT"[DOWN]PLEASE :

THE

COULDCREATE

244'CFSP

";:Y=1:GOSUB

A

YOU'"BAOQ

CONTINUE"'BAXI

48

:

DISK."'BAGJ

PRINT"[DOWN]VALIDATING PRINT"AND

106

46

W

THE

FILE

94

ANY

168'FLYK

184:IF

ON

92

98

:GOTO

:GOSUB

USE,

PRINT"FILENAHE

REBLOCKS

"

W=0:GOTO

FOR

88 90

THE

DISK."'BAGP GOSUB 184:IF W

DISK

SPECIFY."'BALV

1

ERASE

NEW

Q

W=0

PRINT"SPECIFY."'BAAK PRINT"[DOWN]RENAMING A FILE, REPLACES THE 0LD'"BAHT

100 ON

THEN

If

NAME AND ID,";'BBVB ERASES ALL"'BAPP

THE

DISPLAYS

PRINT"iDOWN]ENTER NEW :INPUT I$'CDYM PRINT"[DOWN]THIS WILL

A

W

84 86

244'CFJM

PREVIOUS

184:IF

PREPARES

15,8,15'BHAX 304:GOTO

gram will display the main menu.

70 Rtfore typing this prog""!, ri-ad "lion to tntcr Program!? jnd "Mow to Use Llic Miguinc

10

start, type RUN. One final note about

TAKE

UP

PRINT"CURRENT

NAME

ID

TO

TO

DISK

ONE

THE

DISK

ID,

ONE

SPECIFIED.""BAGF

PRINT"[DOWN]CHANGING OR

ID

WON'T

A

DISK

NAME

ERASE'"BAEJ

124

PRINT"ANY

126

PRINT"[DOWNjCOPYING

FILES

ON

THE

A

DISK."'BARH

FILE,

COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

99


64 USERS OHIV /DISK UTILITY COPIES

A

FILE

TO

FROM

128

PRINT"DISK

130

PRINT"[DOWN]EXIT

ONE'"BALN

212

ANOTHER."'BASJ

RETURNS

IF

PEEK{53247)<>0

[CLEAR,DOWN]FILE

TO

:GOTO

THEN TO

PRINT"

LARGE

BASIC'BAQE

213

132 134 136

FOR X=l TO 4:PRINT:NEXT'FFJE P=1:GOTO 104'CGNE PRINT V$"CHANGE DISK NAME[RVOFF] '"BCEJ

214

216

GET

138

PRINT"[DOWN)NEW NAME:

218

PRINT"[DOWN]WRITING

220 222 224 226

OPEN

142

:GOSUB 244'CFKK GOSUB 184:IF W THEN W=0 :GOTO 262'FLFE IF LEN(H$)<16 THEN HS=HS+CHRS(160) :GOTO

228

INPUT#15,A$,BS,CS,DS' BOB J

144 146

FOR X=l TO 2'DDUF PRINT#15,"I":OPEN

230 232

RETURN'BAQB

2 34

CLOSE

150

:PRI NT #15,"U1:"2;0;18;0'DWYM PRINT#15,"B-P:"2;144:PRINT#2,H$; :PRINT#15,"U2:"2;0;18;0'DBPP CLOSE 2:NEXT:GOTO 168'DGOC

152

PRINT

140

148

";

142'ITJK

2,8,2,"#"

236

DISK

ID[RVOFF]

238

INPUT"[DOWN]NEW

I.D.

(2

240

IF

158

GOSUB

184:IF

:GOTO

262'FLFN

160

FOR

162

PRINT#15,"I":OPEN

LEN(DS)<>2

X=l

TO

THEN W

242

152'FITK

THEN

244

W=0

246

248

2'DDUD 2,8,2,"#"

250

:PRINT#15,"U1:"2;0;18;0'DWYK PRINT#15,"B-P:"2;162:PRINT#2,DS; :PRINT815,"U2:"2;0;18;0 :CLOSE 2'EDXO

252 254

166

NEXT:GOTO

258

168 170 172

INPUT#15,AS,B$,CS,D$'BOBM PRINT"[CLEAR,DOWN]"A$","BS","C$", "D$'BITF IF VAL(AS)=0 THEN 178'EIVI

174

PRINT"[DOWNJPRESS

176 178 180 182 184

CONTINUE1" BAON GET KS:IF KS=""THEN 176'EIIM PRINT#15,"I"'BDPL IF P=l THEN P=0:RETURN'FFTH GOTO 262'BDJG PRINT"[D0WN]OK TO CONTINUE

164

168'CECI

ANY

KEY

196 198 200

AND

PRESS

216'EIDH

";H$'BDFI

l,8,3,HS + "," + T$ + ",W'"EKHD

GOSUB SYS

228'BDPB

49328:CLOSE

GOTO IF

KS=""THEN

1'CHDE

262'BDJF

VAL(A$)>0

THEN

234'EIND

1:PRINT"[CLEAR,DOWN]"AS",

:IF W THEN W=0:GOTO 262'HWNN GOTO 262'BDJG PRINT"[DOWN]PRESS ANY KEY TO

260

TO

MENU'"BAHR

:RETURN'JJUP IF G$=CHRS(20)THEN 260'EJVF H$=Hยง+GS:PRINT GS;'DKYH IF LEN(H$)>16 THEN H$=LEFT$(H$, 16)'GPAM IF Y=l THEN JS=JS+G$'FIRM GOTO 246'BDLK LN=LEN[HS):FOR :PRINT

262

MAIN

GET KS:IF KS=""THEN 240'EIAE GOTO 262'BDJD GS = "":HS = "":IF Y=l THEN JS=""'GKKK GET GS:IF GS=""THEN 246'EIXK IF GS=CHR$ (13) AND H$O""THEN PRINT

X=l

TO

LN

CHR$(20);:NEXT

:GOTO 244'JWKM PRINT"[CLEAR]":POKE

53280,6

264 266

:POKE 53281,6'DQBJ V$=" [CLEAR, DOWN, RVS] '"BCBH PRINT SPC(4)"[WHITEJDISK UTILITY. [SPACE2]BY[SPACE2]STEPHEN

268

FOR V=1104

RODDA"'CCKS

'

:POKE

TO

1143:POKE

V,99

V+54272,2:NEXT'HYLT

270

FOR

GET ZS:IF Z$=""THEN 186'EION IF ZS="Y"THEN RETURN'ECXO IF Z$O"Y"THEN W=l: RETURN ' GFLJ PRINT VS"COPY[RVOFF]"'BCDI PRINT"[DOWN)ENTER FILE NAME: "; :GOSUB 244'CFWO INPUT"ENTER FILE TYPE (P,S,U)"; TS'BDTR IF T$O"P"AND TSO"S"AND

272

PRINT" [RVSJF1[RVOFF] VIEW DIRECTORY"SPC(3)"[RVS1F2 [RVOFF] FORMAT A DISK"'CCMQ

276

PRINT"[DOWN]

T5<>"U"THEN

277

RENAME A FILE"SPC(4)"[RVS]F6 [RVOFF] CHANGE DISK NAME"'CCUU PRINT" [RVS]F7[RVOFF]

192'KJLV

GOSUB

184:IF

W

:GOTO

262'FLFB

THEN

PRINT"[DOWN]READING ";H$'BDNB POKE 53247,0'BHWB OPEN 1,8,2,"0:"+H$'CINF

208

SYS

210

GOSUB

49280:CLOSE

APRILAIAY'86

228'BDPX

274

W=0

202 204 206

100

256

TO

(Y/N)"'BACM 186 188 190 192 194

K$:IF

RETURN

CHARACTERS)";D$'BDBK

DISK

RETURN"'BAFN

"B$","C$'\"DS:GOSUB 184

V$"CHANGE

156

COPY"

POKE 53247,PEEK{782)'CLXD PRINT"[CLEAR,DOWN]INSERT DESTINATION

'"BCEH 154

TO

238'HMZM

l'CHAG

278

X=l

PRINT"

4:PRINT:NEXT'FFJH

[DOWN,RVS]F3[RVOFF]

VALIDATE A DISK"SPC(2)"[RVS]F4 [RVOFF] SCRATCH FILE(S)"'CCWT

[RVS3F5[RVOFF]

INSTRUCTIONS"SPC{5)"[RVS]F8 [RVOFF] CHANGE DISK ID"'CCBV PRINT" [DOWN3,RVS]C [RVOFF] COPY A FILE"SPC(6)"[RVS]X [RVOFF] EXIT

279

TO

FOR

PROGRAM"'CCKV X=1824

:POKE

TO

1863:POKE

X,99

X+S4272,2:NEXT'HYKV


64 USERS OIIIV/DISK UTILITY 280

PRINT

MONITORS

SPC{4}"[DOWN5]

SELECT ONE OF THE FUNCTIONS"'CCJO K$:IF

ABOVE

282

GET

284 286 288

IF IF IF

K$=CHRS(134)THEN K$=CHR$(135)THEN K$=CHR$(136JTHEN

290

IF

KS=CHRS(137)THEN

34'EJIJ

292

IF

KS=CHRS(138)THEN

46'EJML

294

IE

K$=CHR$(139)THEN

136'EKLN

296

IF

K$=CHRS (140JTHEN

298

IF

K$=CHRS(88)THEN

:CLOSE 300

IF

302

GOTO

304

FOR

14'FMBL

$119

66'EJKM 54'EJIO 74'EJLQ

FULL

:IF

TO

45:READ

192'EJPB

THEN

COMMODORE

MONITOR

D:Q=Q+D

COMPUTORS

49280+T,D:NEXT

QO7499

DATA

1541

COLOR

282'BDLA T=0

139

152'EKBP

PRINT"[CLEAR]"

15:END'HKCU

KS=CHR${67)THEN

:POKE 306

KS=CHR$(133)THEN

344'NEXP

169,0,133,251,169,48,133,252,

16 2,1,32,198,255,160,0,32,207, 255'BMTP 308

DATA

166,144,208,18,145,251,200,

208'BFCL 310

DATA

244,230,252,165,252,201,160,

CALL

208,234,169'BOJG 312

DATA

1,141,255,207,145,251,32,204,

FOR PRICES!

255,96'BKQH

314

FOR

T=0

:POKE

:IF 316

TO

48:READ

RO8035

DATA

D

THEN

344'NETQ

169,0,133,253,169,48,133,254,

160,0,16 2,1,32,201,2 55,177,253,

^H

32'BMMQ

318

DATA

320

DATA 207,240,10,200,192,0,208,237, 230,254,76,191,192,165,252,197, 254'BNVL

322 DATA FOR

326

T=0

87:READ

DATA

D

T+49386,D:K=K+D:NEXT

KO13101

THEN

% ^1

344'NFSR

162,1,32,198,255,32,207,255,

DATA

207,255,32,207,255,165,144,

208,66,32,207,255,240,61,32,204,

330

2 5 5'BMWT DATA 32,228,255,201,32,208,5,32,

332

228'BFVG DATA 255,240,251,162,1,32,198,255,

!

168'BOOO

DATA 174,0,206,152,32,205,189,

336

169'BDPJ DATA 32,32,210,255,32,207,255,240,

338

6'BFPM DATA 32,210,255,76,43,193,169,13, 32'BFFO

340

DATA

210,255,76,245,192,32,204,

RETURN'BAQD

344

PRINT"[CLEAR]ERROR

STATEMENTS" ' BADH

IN

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128 USERS

JOHNJ. (COTTIER

128 Character Editor A he

Commodore

128 personal

computer has one of the Strongest BASIC languages ever developed for a home computer system. Using its tre

mendous vocabulary of graphics commands, a programmer can draw almost anything. If, for instance, you want to create graphics in an arcade game, sprites are excellent to use as moving objects, and

bit-mapped

graphics art suitable lor backgrounds.

Hut what if you want to scroll the

Cl.ll/HOME key by itself. In order to turn on certain dots in the grid, you

Once you have

can press the space bar. If you decide

entered and saved this program, you can

will

scroll.

Custom

erase

it. While you are-

experiment with the

acter will actually look like. When

wonderful world of

press the RETURN key. You will be

custom characters

current character you are working on

without ever having

the screen. If you do not wish to use

to see a data

you feel that the character is perfect, asked if you would like to place the into the character set at the bottom of the newly designed character, press

the "N" key and you will return to the "Select Character" mode.

statement.

While you are selecting a character

to change in the "Select Character" mode, you can press other keys to

screen—but you can redesign custom that

itself will

changing the character dots, the small white box will display what the char

scenery? You cannot scroll a bit-map characters

to turn off a dot, the 1NST/D1-I. key by

the

128

character editor

program,

accomplish other tasks. The left ar

characters are also useful for creating different character fonts and for

you can start to experiment with the

row key above the CONTROL key

wonderful world of custom charac

will allow you to restart the 1 2S char

"mass-movement."

ters without ever having to see a data

acter editor program, if you are fin

statement!

ished and wish to quit the program,

But how do you

use custom characters on the 12H?

When you run the pro

gram, a high-resolution portion of the

press the ESC key. Holding down the

screen will be drawn and then you

"B"

The Commodore 64 is capable of

will be asked if you would like to edit

through the background colors, and

redefining characters by using a scries

the upper-case character set or the

the HOME key will move the cursor

of pokes and data statements. The 1 28

lowercase character set. Once you

to the "@" symbol.

uses a similiar method, but instead of the clumsy POKE 1 command that i.s

have answered this prompt, the

Missing Commands

screen will blank lor approximately

key will

allow you

to cycle

When designing characters

for

a

game, you may like to see just how

often associated with custom charac

ten seconds.

ters, you can merely select bank 14

character set you have chosen will be

pressing the *T" key, a small window

and be able to read the character

copied to a memory location in RAM,

will be displayed at the very bottom

ROM. Once you copy the ROM to a 11AM location by using a typical FOK-

Once this has been completed, your

of the screen where you can type up

screen will display the entire charac

NEXT loop or by using the transfer

to three lines of text characters. You

ter set. Soon after this, a cursor will

command

appear on top of the "'fS " symbol. The

can use all of the CONTROL color

in

the

machine-language

During this time,

the

monitor, you can reconstruct the way

computer is now in the ".Select Char

each character is printed on the

acter" mode.

screen. This task is accomplished by

the characters will

codes and

together,

even clear

lly

the window

with the CLR/HOME key. Once you have finished

To select a character to edit, use

fit

typing, press

the RE

TURN key to return to the character

poking values into your RAM charac

the cursor keys to move around the

selection mode. The

ter area. Since data statements were

editor also allows you to copy a char

often cumbersome, programmers be

character set. Once the cursor is flashing on the character you wish to

acter to another character by using

gan lo design character editors.

change, you can press the RETURN

the "C" key. Once you have pressed

key to edit the character. The charac

this key, you will be asked to select

The 128 Character Editor Being artistic lakes .skill, and most

12H character

ter you selected should appear in the

the character to copy and then the

small white box at

character

the top of the

you

wish

to

replace.

Of

people would rather draw each char

screen and the grid to the left should

course, when you are finished with

acter directly on the screen rather

start to fill accordingly. Once the grid

your character set, you can press the

than on paper using a bunch of data

is completed, a light blue cursor will

numbers. The

"S" key and enter a file name to save

appear in the upper left-hand corner

your work. If you wish to recall it,

128 character editor

program at the end of this article will

of the grid. Now you can use the cur

simply press the "I." key and enter the

allow you to do just thai. With this

sor keys to move within the grid.

appropriate file name.

program, you can select any existing

character, modify it until you are sat isfied, and save your new character set as a file on disk. Once you have entered and saved 102

APRIL/MAY'86

If you wish to clear the grid and the

character, press SHIFT and the

Using Your New Set with

CLR/HOME key together. However, if

Your Programs

you would like to move the cursor to the upper left-hand corner, press the

After you have saved your charac

ter set on disk, you can insert die


128 USERS OHI.V/ CHARACTER EDITOR following line in your own programs,

instead. But many of the rules of the

in order to use the new characters:

Commodore 64 still exist. For exam

had to on the Commodore 64. Of

BLOAD " filename ",BO,P 12288

ple, keep the character set within the

course, you can still load character

This command will load the character

same memory locations you would on

sets that you have already designed as

set into a memory area starting at lo

the 64—between 8192 and 14336.

well.

cation

12288.

to change the stxirt of BASIC like you

Once your character set has load

Some programmers

It should also be mentioned thai

ed, you can use the following pokes

this program uses the system reset

with any bit-mapped graphics data.

to display it:

vector after you press the liSC key

However, it is possible to combine

Memory Locations

may notice thai

this will interfere

bit-mapped graphics with a text win

and confirm it by pressing "Y." You

POKE Values POKE 2604, 24

dow and a custom character set. You

8192 - 10239 10240 ■ 12287

simply must plan the memory loca

POKE 2604, 26

12288- 14335

POKE 2604, 28

tions so they will not interfere. It is important to note that you can easily

should write down this system num ber. It could be very handy in the future.

The Commodore 128 is very flexi

Location 2604 is similar to location

ble and can handle many forms of

the

53272 on the Commodore 64. All you

graphics.

character set to be. just change the

need to do is poke this one number.

Commodore 128 character editor of

12288 to another memory location

Don 't worry about BASIC overwrit

ten to explore custom characters and

and the character set will load there

ing your characters; there is no need

use them often in your programs.

change where you would like

:ELSE

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180

Commodore 128 Character Editor

:P0KE

190

CD{2048),PD(75)

2604,21:SPRITE

1,1:BOX

1,0

FAST:GRAPHIC

70

100,0,1 SSHAPE D$,89,90,+11,+21:SPRSAV

1,89,90,99,

0,12:GRAPHIC

:C0L0R

4,13:COLOR

COLOR

1,2:FOR

:DRAW 1,X,10 :FOR Y = 10 TO :DRAW 100

1,0,Y

X=0

TO 90 TO

STEP

SHFT

*,CMDR

MOVE

:GOSUB

1,2

240

2 50

130

COLOR 1,11:CHAR 1,11,7, "SPACE - DRAW[SPACE4]DEL :CHAR

1,11,8,"SHIFT

CLEAR":CHAR 140

220:X = 17

230:X=19:GOSUB

HOVE

240

260

LEFT/RIGHT" 270 -

ERASE"

CLR/HOHE

280

CHAR

290

1,11,10,"T-TEXT[SPACE3]

B-BACKGROUND COLOR" 150

COLOR

PRINT"[HOHE,DOWN13,WHITE,RVS,TAB, [RVOFFJOWER

170

GET

KEY

OR

TO

320,103

[RVS1L

300

US="L"THEN

CHRS(14):RM=53248+2048

1,2

TO

X*8+8,Y*8+3

l,X*8,Y*8+3

TO

X*8+2,Y*8+1

:DRAW

l,X*8,Y*8+3

TO

X*8+2,Y*8+5

DRAW

l,X*8,Y*8 + 3

X*8 + 8 ,Y*8 + 3

l,X*8+8,Y*8+3

TO X*8+6,Y*8+1

:DRAW

l,X*8+8,Y*8+3

TO

X«8+6,Y*B+5

PRINT"[HOME,DOWN13,SPACE3 9]":A=0 Y=l

310 320

TO

8:FOR

X=4

TO

35

1024+480+Y*40+X,A

:P0KE

55296+480+Y"40+X,l:A=A+l

:NEXT

X,Y

X=4:Y=l:WIND0W

0,22,39,24,1

2604,28

L=1504+Y*40+X:CH=PEEK(L) :IF CH>127 THEN POKE L,CH-128 POKE

:IF

TR=0

GET

K$

IF IF IF IF

L,CH+128

THEN

PRINT"[CLEAR]"

K$="[RIGHT]"OR

PEEK(212)=86

X=X+1

KS="(LEFT]"OR

PEEK(212)=85

X=X-1

KS="(DOWN]"OR

THEN

PRINT

TO

:DRAW

THEN

CASE?"

US:IF

l,X*8,Y*8+3

THEN

16 0

RIGHT2]U[RVOFF]PPER

0,1:COLOR

250

:DRAW

:ELSE

L-LOAD[SPACES]C-COPY"

1,0,103

RM+2047

15:SL0W:C0L0R

:POKE

1,11,9,"S-SAVE[SPACE3]

1,12:DRAW

TO

:BANK

:POKE

CHAR

A=RH

12288+A-RM,PEEK(A):NEXT

:FOR

UP/DOWN":X=17:Y=4

1,21,5,"TO

14:FOR

:P0KE

IRETURN

1,11,4,"CRSR,

210:X==23:Y=4 :GOSUB

:Y=5:G0SUB

FAST:BANK

:RETURN

XJ"

120

RAM

:RETURN

[SPACE3)AfJD[SPACE3)

TO

TO

DRAW

80,Y:NEXT

1,8:CHAR

ROM

230

10

X,90:NEXT STEP 10

COLOR 1,14:CHAR 1,11,2, "CURRENT CHARACTER:":COLOR

COLOR

CHARACTER

:RETURN

:CHAR 1,29,1,"[CMDR A,SHFT *, CMDR S]":CHAR 1, 29 , 2,"[SHFT -] [SHFT -]":CHAR 1,29,3,"[CMDR Z, 110

CHR$<142):RM=53248

DRAW l,X*8+4,Y*8+6 TO X*8+4,Y*8 :DRAW l,X*8+4,Y*8+6 TO X*8+8,Y*8+4 :DRAW l,X*8+4,Y*8+6 TO X*8,Y*8+4

2,1,13

80

QJ

220

D$,l

1,13

TO

use the

REM ** 150 - 180 DRAW ARROWS ** DRAW l,X*8+4,Y*8+6 TO X*8+4,Y*8 :DRAW 1,X*8+4,Y*8 TO X*8+8,Y*8+2 :DRAW 1,X*8+4,Y*8 TO X*8,Y*8+2

:CHAR 1,0,0,"[SPACE10] 128 CHARACTER EDITOR[SPACE10]",1 90

will

200 210

:SLOW

COLOR

COPY

:BK=l:G0T0

60

80

PRINT

**

hope you

t *

PRINT"[H0ME2,CLEAR,UNLOCK]"; CHRS(142):DIM

REM

I

PEEK(212)=84

Y=Y+1

KS="[UP]"OR

PEEK(212)=83

THEN

Y=Y-1 COMMODORE POWER/PIAY

103


128USERS OFllV/ CHARACTER EDITOR 330

IF

X<4

THEN

X=4:ELSE

IF

Y<1

340

350

IF

X>35

Y=8

POKE

L,CH:IF

:ELSE

360

THEM

THEN

IF

IF

IF

TR=1

IF

THEN

K$="T"THEN

480:ELSE

SY<60 THEN SY=60:A=A+3 THEN SX=94:A=A-1

:ELSE

SY>130

650

IF

KS="[HOME]"THEN

IF

A<0

660

IF

K$="

670

BK=16

THEN

K$="B"THEN

380

COLOR

0,BK

390

IF K$="[BACK ARROW)"THEN PRINT" [CLEAR,TAB2]RESTART?":GET KEY RI$

400 410 420

IF KS="C"THEN IF K$="L"THEN IF KS="S"THEN

430

IF PEEK(212)=72 TAB,SPACE6]QUIT :GET KEY QPS:IF 65341:ELSE

BK=BK+1

680

IF

710 720 730

IF

870 870

PEEK(212)=72

THEN

REM

*************

460

REM

*

470

REM

*************

480

OPEN

490

PRINT"[CLEAR]":GOTO

500

REM

*************

780

790

TEXT

MODE

*

750

510

REM

*

520

REM

*************

GRID

MODE

530

A=0:COLOR

YY=0

TO

7:LOCATE

TO

PD(A)=1

70

STEP

THEN

BOX

550

XX+10,YY+10,0,1:ELSE YY+1,XX+9,YY+9,0,1 A=A+1:NEXT XX,YY

560

SX=24:SY=60:SPRITE

570

MOVSPR

580

1,SX,SY:IF IF

SPRITE

:FOR

:GOSUB

IF IF IF IF

104

IF

7

810

820

RD=0

KEY 270 TO

THIS

RC$

7

:POKE

12288+CH*8+RD,BV(RD):NEXT

:GOTO

270

FOR

ED=9072

TO

9079:POKE

ED,0:NEXT

10

830

1,XX,YY,

BOX

RSPRITE(1,

PRINT"[CLEAR,TAB]SELECT CHARACTEH TO

COPY.":TR=1

IF

K$=CHR$(13)THEN

GOSUB

810

270:GOTO

800

CC=CH:PRINT"[CLEAR,TAB) TO

WHAT

CHARACTER?":KS=""

IF

K$=CHR$(13)THEN

FOR

GOSUB

C1=0

TO

830

270:GOTO 7:POKE

820

12288+CH*8+C1,

:PRINT"[CLEAR]":GOTO

***************************

REM

*

860

REM

***************************

870

POKE

0,

PEEK(212)=85

CHARACTER

2604,21:IF

DG=1

SET

THEN

*

PRINT"

{CLEAR]* * * LOAD "; :ELSE PRINT"[CLEAR]* * * SAVE "; PRINT"CHARACTER SET * * *" :PRINT"FILENAME:":WINDOW 9,23,25, 9,0,0:INPUT#9,FL$:CLOSE

9

: PRINT"[HOME2]":WINDOW 1

0,22,39,24,

890

IF

FLS=""THEN

FAST

900

IF

DQ=1

910

OPEN

920

IF

DQ=1

IF

DQ=2

930

PEEK(212)=84 THEN

LOAD/SAVE

23:OPEN

10

PEEK(212)=86

270

REM

TO 80 BX,90:NEXT

SX=24:A=A+1

*

84 0 850

880

PEEK(212)=83

CHARACTER

PEEK (12288+CC*8+C1) :NEXT:TR=0

0,XX+1,

1,1,15,0:A=0

STEP

COPY

******************

:ELSE

SY=SY+10:A=A+8

APRIUMAV86

9079

:TR=1

SX=SX-10:A=A-1

THEN

RC=CH:FOR

COPY

SX=SX+10:A=A+1

SX<24

TO

730

*

XX,YY

750

KS="[UP]"OR

GOTO 570 FOR BP=9072

******************

240+XX,16+YY

SY=SY-10:A=A-8

630

TO

80,BY:NEXT

KS="[DOWN]"OR

THEN

620

90 TO

K$="[LEFT]"OR

THEN

610

YY = 0

1,0

K$="[RIGHT]"OR

THEN

600

TO

1,0,BY

DC,240+DX,16+DY

K$=CHRS(13JTHEN

REM

800

K$="[CLEAR]"THEN BOX

BY=10

:DRAW

700

DY=INT(A/8):DX=A-DY*8

REM

1,1

SPRITE

GET K$:IF

l,SX-24,SY-50,

770

RSPRITEd,

THEN

0,SX-23,

710

:ELSE

1,11,79,89,0,1:FOR BX=0 STEP 10:DRAW 1,BX,10 TO

590

7

PD(A)=RDOT{2):A=A+1:NEXT A=0:COLOR 0,12 FOR YY=10 TO 80 STEP 10

:ELSE

BOX

760

8192+880+YY,PEEK

12288+CH*8+YY):NEXT:FOR

0)=1

9

270

*

1,2:FOR

TO

THEN

;RETURN

9,0,0:INPUT|9,JNS:CLOSE

THEN

BOX

:PRINT"[CLEAR,TAB]REPLACE

4 50

0)=0

"THEN

CHARACTER?":GET :IF RCS="N"THEN 740

IF

A>63

:BV(BP-9 072)=PEEK(BP):NEXT

THEN PRINT"[CLEAR, PROGRAM?" QP$="Y"THEN SYS

270

XX=0

IF

700

K$="

:DRAW

790 DQ=1:GOTO DQ=2:GOTO

GOTO

FOR

IF

GOTO

440

540

A=0:ELSE

KS=CHR$(20)THEN

690 700

RUN

430

XX=0

SY=130:A=A-8

SX=24:SY=60:A=0

SX-14,SY-40,0,1:DC=1:GOTO

RlS="Y"THEN

FOR

IF

:GOTO

BK=1

IF

POKE

THEN

THEN

SY-49,SX-15,SY-41,0,1:DC=0

X=4:Y=l

KS="B"AND

IF

A=63

530

:ELSE

:IF

:ELSE IF IF SX>94

Y>8

RETURN

KS=CHR$(13)THEN

[HOME]"THEN 370

X=35:ELS£

640

THEN

1=1

:IF

THEN

940:ELSE

CK$=FL$:ELSE

2,8,2,CKS:CLOSE DSO0

P12288

THEN

CKS="$"

2

SLOW:GOTO

950

THEN

BLOAD

(FLS),B0,P12288

THEN

BSAVE

(FLS),B0,

TO

P14336

940

SLOW:POKE

950

PRINT"[CLEAR,BELL]*

ERROR

*

*

.-GOTO

260

2604,28:GOTO

*

260

*

DISK

*":PRINT DS$:GET KEY

DE$ END


PROGRHmniERS'TIPS

BY STEPHEN S. LEYEN

RETURN

loaded tile except at the ends of para graphs.

Stripper

Since

most text files are single

spaced, with double spacing between

for the Commodore

paragraphs, determine

64 and 128

I used

this criterion to

the end of a

paragraph.

Thus, when we sec a single return, we assume that it was put there by the computer from which the text was

W ith the world of telecommunica

downloaded. When we see two re

tions opening up, more and mote of

turns in a row, we assume that the

us are logging onto bulletin hoard

author intended a paragraph break.

systems and data bases in an effort to use this abundance of useful informa

loaded file

tion.

other

character. It then writes, unchanged,

schedules,

all characters (except RETURNS) to

It

is possible,

things, to medical

among

bring airline

reports,

stock

quotes,

RETURN Stripper reads the down

and

from disk, character by

another file on the disk. When the

even passages right out of encyclope

Stripper encounters a carriage return,

dias over the phone lines and Into our

it looks to see if the next character is

disk drives and primers.

also a RETURN, If so, it outputs them

But what happens when we arc

both. If the RETURN is all by itself, the

preparing a report, either for work or

Stripper makes sure there is a space

for school, on our trusty word proces sor and we want

to

include some

between the last character and the

your newly downloaded text file is

next one. If there is one already, it

downloaded text? Or, when we got

filled with carriage returns through

deletes the carriage return and leaves

mad at the boss and tired off a resume

out the text, not just at the ends of

the space.

into th'j company computer, and now

paragraphs.

only character in between, the Strip

want to download

it, revise it, and

print it using our own equipment?

All the articles and reports on both telecommunications

and

word

pro

per

Trouble In Paradise When you

load

replaces

RETURN

the

was

RETURN

the

with

a

space.

ibis downloaded

text into your word processor, the carriage

If the

returns

prohihit

How to Strip

cessing tell us that ibis is not only

extra

the

It may sound complicated, but it's

possible, but it happens every day. Hut

word processor from making effective

simple to use. I wrote the RETURN

there is a subtle problem lurking in

use Of the formatting commands you

Stripper to be as foolproof, complete,

the background that puzzles many

give it. For example, if you set up your

people who try to accomplish this

and informative as possible. Type the

report to print with a left margin at

program and save it to disk. When

task. The problem is that the down

column 5 and a right margin at col

you want to use it, just load and run it.

loaded text files are usually not in

umn 75, you get a 70-columu report,

Bui the section you downloaded has a return after every 40 or less charalers.

A short description of the program

quite the right form to he properly handled by our word processors.

Those lines will be much shorter窶馬o

Processing Words

more than i() columns wide!

appears on the screen.

Insert

the

disk

containing

the

downloaded tile into the drive. Make sure there is enough room on the disk

If you have just a short section of

for another file of the same size as the

sor, you usually use the RBTCRN key

downloaded material to include, you

only when you definitely want a car

downloaded file. The file name to en ter when prompted for the input file

riage return during priming, such as

can, of course, move I he cursor through the text, deleting all unnec

at the end of a paragraph or after each

essary carriage returns and closing up

When writing with a word proces

is the file thai was downloaded. Pick a new file name for the output file.

line of a table. However, when a para

the spacing, lint being basically lazy,

graph is being downloaded via mo

and usually having large downloaded

ed the option to get a printout of the

dem, a carriage return is sent at the

files to work with, 1 decided to let the

file at

end of every line Of text. This causes

computer do the work for me.

stripped

the next character to he printed ai

ihe beginning of the next line on the screen, as well as on the printer. The database

service

or

bulletin

board

Just in case you wanted it, 1 includ

the same

time it's being

of carriage

returns.

This

printout is formatted exactly the way

The Solution

the original

"RETURN Stripper." the program I wrote

to bridge

the

gap

between

file was downloaded.

Thai means if the original was format ted for display on

a

40-column

sends these carriage returns so you'll

downloaded text files and the word

screen, you'll get a 40-column print

be able to easily read the message. In

processor, is listed at the end of this

out. If you want to reformat the text,

fact, many services format

text

article. It's a not-so-simplc program

you'll

specifically for the Commodore 04's

that Implements a simple idea-. Strip

through stripping. Then you can use

40-column screen. This

ail carriage returns out of my down

your word processor.

the

means that

have

to wait until

we're

COMMODORE POWER/PWV

105


PROGRflmmERS'TIPS /RETURN STRIPPER When the program starts working

For a short table or address, I usual

on your Ilk-, the output is sent not

only to the disk output RIc you select

ed, bui also to the screen, so you can see what kind of progress is being

made. (If you chose printer output, to abort

No, this isn't a new

once the text is in my word proces

command that produces

another trick you can use. First, load

cessor. Delete everything except the single-spaced table that you want to

right on your monitor

gram will stop and ;iii flics will be properly dosed.

include. Now save the table in :i file 01) disk. CleST your word processor,

screen! It will, however,

When the Stripper has finished ils

and load In the "stripped" flic. Find

help you make the

work, the output tile will lie suitable for access by your word processor, as

the table, and delete it. Now, load the table you saved from the original, tin-

transition from a

long as your word processor operates on sequential flies, 11 not, you'll have to run the. output file through a con verter to make it acceptable.

carriage returns) into your word pro

starting Gypsy Rose Lee

the. program for any

reason, just press the F7 key. The pro

stripped file into the middle of your

downloaded textfile to

text in the word processor.

one that can be

you'll \wi:i.[ to study the instructions

Now

your word processor can also format

to llnd the exact technique of insert ing text in the middle of a file.)

your word processor.

One Pitfall

(Since

most word processors are different,

modified and used by

this portion of your text correctly.

sor. For large tables, however, there's the original downloaded text (with

an animated sequence

you would also get a printout) 11' you wish

ly just manually add carriage returns

While

RETURN Stripper doesn't

come in a plain brown wrapper, isn't as sexy as some of the commercial

Since the Stripper deletes solitary carriage returns, it will mess up the

will be replaced with spaces. Similar

formatting of a single-spaced address,

ly, a table or poem will have an inten

bring hack (iypsy Rose I.ee, it does do

table, or poem. A three-line address, for example, has a single carriage re

tional author's return at the end of

some ol' the dirty work when it comes

each line. Unfortunately, the Stripper

to making downloaded files compati

turn at the end Of each line, and these

will strip these text areas as well.

ble with our word processors.

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BYSTl-mi-NS. LEVEN

stops, and the computer is locked up

Reset Switches:

There is almost nothing you can do short of turning off the power switch,

Renewing

which will also destroy the program in memory. Murphy's Laws state that

Your BASIC

this lock-up will only happen just be fore you were going to save the last half-hour's work on your program!

Programs

I said "almost" above, because, if

you have a datassette, the following

Installing a reset switch in your

sequence of keystrokes will allow you

Commodore computer can give you

to regain control of the computer, hut

access to a number of handy features.

only if you were bitten by the "bot

l:or instance, a reset switch lets you

tom of the screen" bug: Press the 9

restart cartridge programs or reboot

and N keys at the same time.

your computer without exercising

press the PLAY button on the datas

the ON/OIT switch. However, one of the best features of a reset switch is

sette. When the screen goes blank,

that it lets you recover from a lock-up without losing your BASIC program.

So, if you do any amount of program ming, a reset switch, properly used, can be a real lifesaver.

Ifyour Commodore 64

Computer Lock-up Wlial is computer lock-up? No, it's

not when your spouse

locks

your

computer in the basement so you'll pay him/her some attention. Comput er lock-up is any situation in which

you cannot regain control of the com

press the RUN/STOP key. Don't ask why it works. Just be thankful that it

locks up and you have

does!

installed a reset switch,

Reset to the Rescue

you can recover the BASIC program that was in memory at the time

Then

If your Commodore 64 locks up and you are fortunate enough to have installed a reset switch, you can re cover the BASIC program that was in memory at the time of the lock-up.

of the lock-up by using

Here's how:

this program

off, then turn it on. your computer

When you turn the power switch initializes itself.

However,

the con

tents of HAM, where your BASIC pro

puter, and the computer is not doing

anything "useful," Usually, lock-up oc

is locked in an endless machine-lan

gram

curs when the computer is perform

guage loop, with no way tor you to

power is off, and when the computer

ing an endless machine-language loop

tell it to stop. If you've saved the pro

is turned on, RAM contains "garbage."

from which there is no escape.

gram, you can always switch the com

However, when you press the reset

puter off and on, reload the program,

switch, although your computer per

your computer, Ifyou SYS to an incor

correct it, resavc it, and try to run it

forms the same initialization, RAM is

rect memory location, there is a good

again.

neither cleared nor changed. .Since

There are several ways to lock up

chance thai the particular combina

tion of machine-language instructions

Particularly frustrating is the Com

is

stored, are

lost when

the

the power was never shut off, RAM contains the same data it did before.

at that location will tell the micro

modore 64 "bottom of the screen" bug, a feature found on 64's with tin-

processor to perform some function

original ROM. As you know, a pro

is still there!

over and over, without allowing it to

gram line in Commodore BASIC can

poll the

be up to 80 characters long, which \s

when your 64's opening screen ap

any keys you press are ignored, liven

two screen lines. Often, we program

pears, ifyou type LIST, you simply get

the RUN/STOP-RESTORE combina

mers begin typing a program line and

the RliADY prompt. Ifyou type HUN,

tion will not work.

look up at the monitor later to discov

you simply get the READY prompt. It

This can also occur ifyou type in a

er that we've extended onto the third

sure looks like your program is gone

program which includes a machine-

screen line. We know that anything

from memory. But that's not the case

language loader. Such programs can

beyond the 80th character will be ig

at all. The program is still there. The

usually be identified by a large num

nored by the system, so we DELIiTL

computer's operating system doesn't

ber of data statements which contain

hack to a suitable stopping point on

a series of numbers.

the second screen line.

know it, though. The system initializa tion changed the pointers thai tell the

keyboard. This means that

If you mistype

even one of the numbers and run tile

Mere's the bug: If this occurs at the

This means that your BASIC program After pressing the

reset

switch,

operating system where the start and

program, it is possible thai your com

bottom of the 64 screen, when the

end of BASIC text is. so that the sys

puter will lock up. (That is why the

cursor deletes back from

tem thinks there is no BASIC program

instructions for such programs always

screen line onto the second screen

insist that you save the program be

line, things go crazy. The program in

All we need to do is change the

fore running it.) Again, your computer

BASIC memory begins to run, then

pointers hack to what they were ori-

the third

in memory.

COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

107


PROCRnmmERS'TIPS /RESET SWITCHES gbialfy, ;ind the BASIC program will

reset switch, typing LIST shows that

reappear. RENEW, at the end of this

business.

the program is apparently gone. Just

article, is ;i program dial will accom plish this feat Actually, any UNNBVP

gramming lime. RENEW will also rc-

type the SYS and CI.R commands you

siore your BASIC program if you type

wrote down

program will perform the same task

TURN. Now type LIST. Voila—Your

ers, making the computer think [here

when used with a reset switch.

program has returned unscathed!

is no program in RAM ), or if you rype

RENEW is in the form of a BASIC loader—it reads numbers from data statements

and

pokes

them

before,

mid press

RE

No

loss

of valuable pro

NEW (which resets the BASIC point

SYS6J73K, which performs a "warm/

Daily Use

cold slan." It won't be of any help,

into

Once you've installed a reset switch,

memory. RENEW is .set up to store

add RENEW to the list of programs

the machine-language program begin

you load Into your Commodore 64

ning at location 50000, If that loca

when you llrsl lurn on your machine.

however, if electrical power to ram is lost, as in a power outage, or if [he computer is turned off. The security of having RENEW lucked safely away

tion is being used by other utilities,

Load and run it Immediately, then for-

you can select :iny other usable RAM

get about it. RENEW must be already

location by changing the value of SA

poked into memory in order to save

in line

your BASK! program should your 6-t

ming, gel in [he habit of using RENEW

computer and save it first. When you

lock up. Now. program to your heart's

in combination with a reset switch—

run it. it will perform the pokes and

content, just as you normally do. If

either one you Install yourself, or one

give you the command to use to re

your computer locks up, just press

of [he several that are on the market. I

new or restore your BASIC program.

the reset switch, type the SYS50000;

know it has saved my tail many times,

Write

down

CI.R command, and you're back in

and I'm sure it will save yours.

don't

change

10. Type RENEW into your

the

command.

the

value

If you

of SA.

the

command will be

SYS50000:CLB Now, when you have a BASIC pro gram in memory (the RENEW loader is still there, if you want to use. it to

test out the system), and you press the

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HY DENNIS BI.OOMFIEI.D

keyboard overlay (chcatshcet), and

DB's Cheapsheet

works with the VIC 20 or Commo

dore 64 equipped with a dot-matrix printer. An overlay does not fit on a

single sheet of 8-1/2 by II-inch paper,

for Commodore

so you must have a printer that uses

fanfold paper, like the Commodore

Computers with

1525. Commodore

16 and Plus 4

owners should study the program and

Printer

use the code as a starting point for writing a similar program for their

M. here are several companies selling keyboard

overlays

for

keyboard configurations.

Commodore

The primary techniques

used in

computers. These overlays are more

this program arc the use of string con

commonly called "Cheatsheets"

stants and concatenation (addingsev

and

are very handy items. If you have ever

eral strings together to form a larger

stopped working and spent live or ten

string). Operating the program is sim

minutes pouring over a program man

ple. Line up the printer at the top of a

ual to find the correct syntax for a

page, and run the program. After an

command, you know what I mean.

overlay has been printed, you will

Having all the commands on the key

have the option of printing another. If

board can save a lot of your time.

you want a more Sturdy overlay, glue

Most overlays are designed for a specific application, but some come

it onto poster board prior to trim ming it. It should be obvious where to

blank so you can customize them to

create a program that would produce

your own needs. If you want to buy

blank keyboard overlays using my

Program lines that contain nothing

more than

two or three of these

Commodore 64. I am basically a

but colons may be omitted, as may

Cheatsheets, you will spend quite a bit

cheap person—thus the name "DB 's

REM statements.

of money on them. Since I already

Chcapshcet."

(VIC 20 omit apostrophe and last fuur Idlers in each program

paid for printer paper, I decided to

This program will print a blank full-

lltforc typing this prcpam, read "How tD lintcr Programs" and "How to Use Lhc Magazine

Entry Program." The BASIC programs in tints magazine ire available on disk from loakiv,

29 0

REM

l'.O.Boxi(K)07l5hrcvqintt,U7ll300007.1-800-SJI-26H

300

:'ABHW

DB's Cheapsheet

310

90 GOSUB 900'BDMG 100 PRINT"[CLEAR,RVSJDB'S

320

110

CHEAPSHEET"'BAUA PRINT"[DOWN4JPRINTER

READY

(Y/N)

120

[SPACE2JY";:INPUT"(LEFT3]";YS :IF Y$O"Y"THEN 100 ' GLAK PRINT" [DOWN]WORKING. . . '"BAPA

130

:'ABHX

140 150

REM START :'ABHA

160

OPEN

170 180

:'ABHC REM LINES

TO

3 50 3G0 370

REM CLOSE

380 390 400

6-15'BKUH

10'DERA

(S2S,29)+B6S+S1$+S3$+SP?+B6S'MPQP NEXT'BAEA

1,4'BDWC

#

PRINT#1,S1$+B6$+S1$+S3$+B6$+LEFT$

:'ABHB

LINE

#

15'CHXE

:'ABHD

PRINT#1,S1S+B6S+S3$+SPS+SPS+81$; :FOR

0-5'BJPF

LINES

FOR X=l

ffl

lint)

330 340

PRINTING'BNKD

It

trim the finished Cheapshects.

X=l

TO

7:PRINT#1,B3$;

:NEXT'LILS PRINTS1,B5$+LEFT$(S2$, 29)+B6$+S1S+S3S+SP$+B6S"IDDQ :'ABHG REM LINES # 16-55'BLRB

190

:'ABHE

410

:'ABHY

200 210

PRINT#1,S1S+B1S;'CJZY FOR X=l TO 60:PRINT#1,B3§;:NEXT

420 430

FOR

:PRINT#1,B2S'GSAE

EFT$(S2$,37)+B6?+S1S+S3S+SP$+B6$'

220 230

PRINT#1,BLS:PRINT#1,BL$'CLKB PRINT!1,S1S+B6S+S1S+S3S+B1S;'FSFG

NSET

4 40

240

FOR

450

: 'ABHD

4 60 470

REM

250

:PRINT#1,B2S+S1$+S1$+S1S+B6S'KFJM PRINT#1,S1S+B6S+S1S+S3$+B6$;'FSKI

260

PRINT#1,S1S+S3$;:PRINT#1,B4$;

480

X=l

TO

:F0R X=l TO :NEXT'IEMM

14:PRINT#1,B3S;:NEXT

14:PRINT#1,B3S;

270

PRINT#1,B2S+S1$+S3S+SP$+B6$'FRIJ

280

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490

X=16

TO

55'DFAD

PRINT*1,S1$+B6$+S3$+SP$+SPS+B6$+L

NEXT'BAEC LINE

#

56'BHSG

:'ABHF PRINT!1,S1$+B6$+S3S+SPS+SP$+B4$; :FOR X=l TO 7:PRINT#1,B3S; :NEXT'LIOU PRIWT#1,B2$+LEFT$(S2S,29)+B6$+S1$

IDAS

Continued on pg, 128 COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

109


PROGRHinmERS'TIPS

DY IAN ADAM

On the Move A Screen Moverfor the

Commodore 64 and VIC 20 y who has done much inter active programming would agree that it would be very handy to be able to save a screen of information, swap screens

in

and out,

and so

forth.

"Screen Mover" provides exactly that

function, and makes it so easy, it's al most fun. A couple of .simple com mands from BASIC, and screens can

be saved, moved around, and recalled, almost totally at will.

Screen Memory To understand

FOR-NKXT loop. The programming is

how this program

works, it is helpful to know how the

screen display is generated. In theory, there's no reason that the video dis play can't be manipulated just like any

other data. The image on your TV or monitor screen is stored In RAM, one

byte of memory representing one let ter on the screen. When information Is to be displayed, the central proces sor in your computer simply stores it in a specific area of memory. The vid eo chip operates quite independently,

not particularly difficult, but

With a couple of

it is a

nuisance, and runs into that same old

problem ... BASIC is so slow!

simple commands

However, the Screen Mover pro

gram will give you the capability to

from BASIC, screens

transfer screens of information {or of

can be saved, moved

color) around inside your computer,

under complete control. And, be

around, and recalled

cause it

quickly, using this

very easy to use. The program adds a

is written in machine lan

guage, it is extremely fast. It is also

simple new command to BASIC, tak

program

ing advantage of the SYS routine. The

almost like a separate computer-with-

easy way to do this is to set variable

in-a-computer. ll reads the informa

SC equal to the start location of the

tion directly from this RAM, and uses

screen memory, and the code for the

il

up the screen display.

color you want in the corresponding

Gunge the contents of RAM, and the

color RAM. All that may sound a little

display changes automatically.

complicated, but you've done it be

where the start of the screen you

fore—it happens automatically even,"

want to move is presently located. (A

time you print a message.

"page" is defined as 256 bytes. It lakes

to build

There arc two blocks of HAM used

to build the video display. Each one is

machine code. 'Hie format is then

SYSSC, SP[, HI'l SP

is "starting page"—the page

four such pages to hold one screenful

the same size as the screen itself—

1000 bytes for the 64's screen of 25 rows by 40 characiers, 506 bytes lor

Moving

the VIC 20's 23-by-22 format. The

RAM are in normal

memory space,

image to end up. HP is optional—you

first block, screen memory, contains

you can move them around, rearrange

may delete it if you wish, in which

the actual characters shown on the

them, and so on. This can be done

case the image will be transferred to

screen. This is like a black-and-white

with

the current screen location.

Since

screen

of information,) UP is "end page"—the memory

and

color

HASIC, using a straightforward

page of memory where you want the

picture—all the details but no color.

'Hie second block, known as color

Table 1

RAM. is the same size and stores a

NORMAL MEMOKV l.OCA'I IONS

color code for each character. These are the paint

brushes, used to give

color to the picture. In order to make a message appear on the screen, you have to store the

appropriate character codes in 110

APRiUMAY'86

die

SCREEN

COLOR

Commodore 64

1024 page 4

55296 page 216

VIC 20

7680 page 30

38400 page 150

VIC with expansion

4096 page 16

37888 page

(The


PROCRRmmERS'TIPS

i! THE MOVE

page number is just the memory ad

er. An alternative for the 64 is 49152,

end page, it automatically goes to the

dress, divided by 256.) On the 64, the

in the high RAM not used by BASIC.

screen is normally located at page -i, and the color memory is always at

Once the code is stored, you can de

screen. Then SYS 828, 196, 216 gets that fine paintwork back.

page 216. On the VIC 20, these locu

and the Screen Mover will still

tions will

there, waiting to be used.

move with

the

lete the BASIC program with NHW,

memory

be-

As we noted above, the locations

configuration. Sec Table 1 for these

will differ on the VIC. Just check the

Using It

locations.

accompanying

Just imagine the uses in your pro

Setting Up it won't

to find

screen

full

Unfortunately, the unexpanded vie offers little Spate RAM to store screens

You

can

prepare

a

Be

particularly

pop it into view immediately when

in. The data is best stored at the top of

the data

statements,

ever you want, without the user hav

BASIC RAM, where it should be pro

since they must be perfect. Now that

ing to wait for BASIC to print it. You

tected from BASIC first.

you're finished typing, take a moment

can even save graphics.

careful

take long.

table

and color memory for your machine.

screen of material out of sight, and

gramming.

Go ahead and type the program in;

Notes to You

with

One

Here's an example of the Screen

to save a backup copy to disk or tape

Let's say you've

caution—be transfer data

careful to, since-

before you run it. With any machine-

Mover put

language program, there is always a

prepared a screen of instructions or a

whatever is there to begin with will be obliterated. If you should happen

possibility

to use.

final

where you

that the computer could

menu for a new program—and it's in

to transfer a screen into your BASK",

lock up if you've make a typing error.

full color. To save the screen to high

program area, the program will be de

If this should happen, you'll appreci

memory in the 64, use SYS 828, 4,

stroyed. If you ever transfer into zero

ate having that backup copy. Just re

192. The screen will be transferred

page, the computer will suffer an ex

load, check for typos, and try again.

from starting page 4, its normal loca

treme case of amnesia, and will have

When you run the program, you

tion, to end page 192, in high RAM.

to be reset or cycled off and on again

will first be asked where to store the

Also store the color memory next to

to regain control.

code. The machine language is totally

it with SYS H28, 216, 196.

map will help chart the route.

A good memory

Now, you can proceed to develop

That, in a nutshell, is it. I hope that

where that it will not be in conflict

the program further, refine it, save it,

you find this little program useful, and

with BASIC or other data. A handy

whatever. When you want the screen

that it helps you to build better inter

location in either computer is 828,

back, just type SYS 828, 192 to get the

active programs. And keep those pro

which is the start of the cassette buff

text. Because we don't specify the

grams on the move!

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[OtnPUTER 5CIEHTIST

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Sorting

Techniques: The Bubble Sort - iii' tlie most common tasks that computers must perform is to arrange a large amount of information in a certain order. For instance, if a com

puter is used to track [he scores of people in a howling tournament, (lien

we would want the computer to be ahle to arrange all of the players in order hy lotal score. If a computer is used to track the names and phone

numbers of nil the people you know, then we would want the computer to be able CO arrange this information alphahetically by name.

'Hie task of arranging Information in numerical or alphabetical order is known as "sorting." If you write com puter programs frequently, sooner or

later you will probably have to write a routine that sorts some information. Sorting is done so frequently in com

mercial applications of computers that computer scientists have done extensive research into the design of

very fast sorting techniques. We are going to present one of the

most famous techniques for sorting

information. This technique is known

as the "bubble sort." Although it is not the fastest technique possible, it is im portant because: It is elegant and easy

to under

stand.

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It can be programmed In just a few lines. For many situations, it

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To get these numbers in the desired is plenty

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These two entries are in the correct

order, the bubble sort looks for pairs

order, so we leave [hem alone. Now

fast.

of adjacent numbers which are in the

we look at the next pair of entries in

The concept of a bubble sort can

wrong order, switches them, and con

the list:

ways, to produce much more power

tinues doing this until everything is in the correct order. Let's see how it

These two entries are in the wrong

ful sorting techniques. (We will give

works with this example.

Order, so we switch them. The result

be modified and elaborated in many

an illustration of this later in the arti cle.)

Starting from the left, we look at the first two entries in the list:

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34

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An Example of a Bubble Sort

These two entries are in the wrong

The fastest way to understand how

order, so we switch them. The result

a bubble sort works is to look at an example. Suppose we wan! to arrange

the following five numbers in ascend ing order (smallest number first): 112

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is

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Now we look at the next pair of en tries in the list:

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'These two entries are in the correct

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Now we look at the next pair of en

tries in the list:

order, so we leave them alone.

We have now reached the end of

the list, but [here arc still some en-


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A(I -t- I >. lfA(l)isless than or equal to

der, so we .start back at the beginning again.

The firsi two entries ate in the cor rect order, so we leave them alone, 23 51 34 67 89 Now we look at the next two entries: 23

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These two entries are not in the cor rect order, so we switch them. The result Is

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The list is now in the correct order, so we are finished.

Depending on how many elements are in the list and how badly they are out of order, it is sometimes neces sary

io

make a large

A(I + 1 ), nothing is done. However, if

The classic "bubble

A( I) is greater Mian A( 1 + 1), then the

sort' can be

ecuted.

programmed in just a

few lines, is elegant

Lines 330 and 340 switch the val ues in A(l) and A(l + I ). For instance, if I is 2,andA(2)is<J 4 and A(3)is7H;

then alter lines 330-340 have been executed, A(2) will be 78 and A(3)

and easy to

will be 9-t.

understand, and is

This

plenty fastfor many

situations.

Line 350 seis the variable V to one. signifies

that

at

least

one

"switch" was performed during the FOH-NEXT

loop.

We

will

explain

more about this in a moment.

Line

360 displays all of the elements of A()

in their current order, so that we can

number of

"passes" through the list to gel every

Commands in lines 330-360 are ex

the following display on your screen.

watch ibe progress of the sort.

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So the F(IR-N1-XT loop in lines 310-

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370 makes one "pass" through the array A(), and switches any pairs of

to gradually "float" to the right and

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small numbers to gradually "sink" to

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of order. As we learned earlier, it may

the left. This floating and sinking con

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thing in proper order. So we wanl to

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thing Ul order.

The

technique is called "bubble

son" because it causes large numbers

tinues until everything is in the cor rect order.

Programming a Bubble Sort

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take a number of passes to gei every

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repeat

How the Program Works The first section of the program,

in BASIC

neighboring elements which are out

the entire

FOR-NEXT loop,

over and over again, until everything is in the proper order.

To accomplish this, we must keep

lines 100-240, fills the array A( ) with

track during each FOR-NEXT loop of

gramming a bubble sort in BASIC,

six random integers between 0 ;md

whether any elements were switched.

This program will begin by filling the array A( ) with a list of six random

100, and displays the values on the

That is the puqiose of the variable F.

screen. The remainder of the program

At the beginning of [he loop (in Line

Listing I

shows one way of pro

is the actual bubble-sort routine. The

300). l; is set to zero. If any elements

heart of the routine is a FOR-NBXT

arc switched during die loop. F will

on the array. The program will display

loop in lines 310-370 which moves

be set to one. When the FOR-NHXT

the array each time a pair of elements

across the array

is shifted, so that you can follow the

end, switching neighboring elements

progress of the sort. So, for instance, if

thai are out of order.

integers between 0 and 100. Then [he program will perform :t bubble sort

the values in (he array are 23 45

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12

16, then you will see

from beginning to

For each value of i, the computer looks ai the array dements A( I) and

REfi

are finished.

DIM

A (6)

200 210

FOR I = 1 TO 6 A'.I) = INT(UG0)*RNB<0> )

220

PRINT

230

NEXT

Tips on Using the BubbleSort Technique

Ail) ;

If you need to do some sorting in

I

PRINT

F=0

310

FOR

another pass through [he 1'Olt-NKXT

everything is in proper order, and we

100

240

necessary Io make another pass, so we go back to line 300 (and make

necessary to make any more passes —

BUBLBORT

300

ue of F(Une 400). if F is I, then it is

loop ). I lowever, if F is 0. then it is not

Listing I. Bubble Sort 1

loop is completed, we check the val

one of your own programs, you can

use tines 300-400 from our sample

I

=

1

TO

program

5

320

IF Ail)

330

X=rt<I> :Y=AU+1)

<= A<I+1)

THEN

as

is,

except

for

these

changes.

370

In our example, we dimensioned A() to have only six elements. In your own program, you probably will need

340

to make A() much larger. Whatever

350 360

FOR J=i

370

NEXT

400

IF

TO

PRINT

I

F=l

THEN

300

A(J);:NEXT

J:PRINT

you dimension it to. change line 310 accordingly. For instance, if you set A() to

DIM A(IOO),

then line

310

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coiiiputer sciEnnsT should be:

Let's suppose we want to sort these

310 FOR I = I TO 99 You also will probably want to leave

six numbers:

79

ning account of the status of A(). You

can speed up file program slightly by changing lines 330-340 to the follow ing:

330

Z-A(I):A(I)=A(I+ 1)

340

A(l+ 1) = Z

71

68

41

75

42

'Hie sort will proceed as follows: 79 71 68 41 75 42

out line 360, which gives you a run

'Iliis accomplishes the same job as be fore — exchanging the values which

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75

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71

68

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were in A(l) and A( 11 1) — but it

Even though only two entries in

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docs the job with three commands

the sequence were out of order, the

-H

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71

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instead of four.

bubble sort had to go through a great

deal of work to get them into their

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75 75

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proper position. In general, when two

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entries are out of order and they are a

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68

71

75

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The bubble sort is not a highly effi

large distance from each other, the

cient Stirling technique. However, be

bubble sori has to go through a lot of

il !l

42 42

68 68

71 71

75 75

79 79

cause ol its simplicity and elegance,

steps to get the two entries into their

we can easily identify some of its ma

proper positions.

An Improvement on the Bubble Sort

This is obviously a much more effi cient way to sort than the bubble sort.

jor shortcomings, and evolve much

The basic problem here is that a

On the average, this technique is

mure powerful sorting techniques. One obvious shortcoming of the

bubble .son compares and switches

about twice as fast as the bubble sort.

only entries which happen to be adja cent. This suggests a way in which we

how to Implement our new sorting

can

technique. Much of this program is

bubble .sort is that it moves elements only one position at a time. For in stance, here is

how

a

bubble sort

make an

bubble

sort

Improvement on the technique.

The

program

in

Listing 1

shows

Let's revise

would sort the following list of num

identical to our bubble sort program.

the technique so that it can compare

bers (note that only the first and last

'Hie main clilfcrcncc is the use of a

and switch entries which are a long

entries are out of order):

new variable. D, which starts at five

distance apart.

and goes down to one. (Hie value of

60 20

20 60

30 30

40 40

50 50

10 10

20

30

60

40

SO

III

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30

40

60

50

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which are at the beginning and end.

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30

40

50

60

10

comparing and

Then we will compare entries which

stance,

are a distance of four apart. ITien we

three. Then in Lines 320-340 we will be comparing the second entry with

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30

40

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50

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30

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60

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10 20

30 30

40 40

50 50

60 60

Let's suppose that we wan! to .sort a

sequence of six numbers. We will be gin

by

comparing the

two

entries

will compare entries which are a dis

tance of three apart, two apart, and one apart. 'Hie following example will show you how this sort will work.

I) is controlled by a FOR-NEXT loop in Lines 300-100.) D determines the

"distance" of the two elements we are switching.

suppose I

is two,

For

in

and D is

the fifth entry (and switching them if necessary).

Our new technique is much more

efficient than a bubble son, but it, too, has shortcomings. If you trace it

Listing 2. Faster Son

through some examples, you will see-

1

REM

FA3TRSCJRT

100

DIM

A(6j

200

FOR

1

=

that it spends a great deal of timelooking at pairs of entries which arc-

1

FG

already in the correct order. There

6

210

All)

220

PRINT

230

NEXT

240

PRINT

300

FOR

D

^

5

TO

1

310

FOR

I

■■=

I

TO

6-D

320

IF

330

X=A<I): Y=A(I+Di

340

A(n=Y ACI+D>=X

360

FOR

370

NEXT

I

400

NEXT

D

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you are interested in learning more

about this, find out aboui the "Quick

I

sort" technique, which is discussed in

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are ways to minimize this problem. If

INT((100)*RND(0)) Adi ;

J-

<=

TO

STEP

A(I+0)

6:PFaNT

many textbooks on programming al

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THEN

gorithms or data file management. 370

Isaac Malit/. is a computer consultant and systems designer who specialize:-.

A<J);:NEXT

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in accounting and database applica tions. He is co-author of The Commo

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JOVSTICK LUnnTIC

.. ■ ■:

BY STEVE HNKIil.

The Strange Case ofJohn Q.

Public Part 2 fyou remember from the l-'ebruary.March issue, the wea/thyjohn Q. Pubic has been murdered in elev en different ways At the conclusion

of Part I, the Inspector bad brought together the twelve suspectsfor ques

wile left me as a result of my drinking?

Law...stabbing the life out Of the un

tioning. Each suspect hud strong 'no-

('Hie room buzzes with excitement as

fortunate

tires, was known to have threatened

a result of the Inspector's revelations.

puzzling about the

murder, and had had plenty of op

Suddenly

OUT.

that they were administered with a

There is a scream, and the lights are

knife that did not have a .sharp edge,

portunity to do so, Now the Inspector is about to uncover the killer.

Present in room (in order of ap pearance): the Inspector, the Maid, the Cuddy, Mrs. Public, the Sister-in-

THE

LIGHTS

GO

Mr.

Public. What

is most

stab wounds

is

turned on.)

perhaps a butter knife. As one who

Inspector: I turned the lights out to

enjoyed cooking as a bobby to the

get your attention. Mrs. Public, why

point that her kitchen was complete

did you scream? Mrs. Public: I thought I

with a home computer program for

was sup

recipes, the Sister-in-Uiw surely had

law, the Butler the Cook, the Chauf

posed to. Hcsidcs, I saw Mr. Whipple

dozens of sharper, more deadly, more

feur, the Psychic, (Jade Fred, the Per

slip off to the bathroom to fee! our

painful knives and cleavers to use. If

toilet paper,..and do I smell alcohol

the

on your breath?

Public to death, I'm sure she would

sonal

Secretary,

the

Suspicious

Witness Couple, and Mr. Whipple. Inspector; just to set the record

Inspector:

This

is getting

us

no

Sistcr-in-Law

have elected

to

had

stabbed

forego

Mr.

the butter

straight, i want it known chat even 1

where! I am now prepared to reveal

knife in favor of a Ginsu knife, at the

had a brush with OUT dear deported Mr. Public, He publicly humiliated me by challenging me to discover the

who is responsible, how they did it.

very Least

and why.

killer in the Deadline and Suspect ad

venture games for the Commodore 6i. When I couldn't do it, I became a laughingstock, lust my job as chief in

spector, and turned to the bottle. I became

a

drunk,

unable

to

think

Which brings us to the faithful But

{Kveryone in the room leans forward

ler—isn't that always the way in cases

as if K. F. Hutton were going to speak.)

like this? You'd be as guilty as sin

Inspector. We have eleven different

except for one fact: Mr. Public hated

possible causes of death, eleven dif ferent sets ol' clues, and eleven differ

tea, and

refused to drink it, even

ent murder weapons. Whipple, leave

though he had you make it and serve him three times a day, just so he

that toilet paper alone!

could kick the expensive silver tea

Mrs. Public: And now you've turned

sheet back into his wallet.)

clean it up. If you wanted to poison

your life back around?

Inspector: 1 gave this case my best

him, you would have put the arsenic

Inspector: No, I'm still a drunk, un

shots—cr, shot—and can with every

in his chocolate milk, which he drank

able to think clearly and function as a

certainty identify the culprit. Un, any

daily with great relish, or even in the

detective. This case is my last chance,

body Want to confess now and save us

and if 1 blow this one...

all some time?

great relish. Which brings us to the Cook, who

(The Inspector casts a longing eye to

(No response.) Inspector: Okay, here- goes. Mrs. Pub

used to make that great relish...we

the solace of alcohol at the bar. The remaining people

lic,

you swore you

with your spatula, all right, hut your

suspicious eyes toward [he compe

would shoot your husband three

alibi remains intact. You could not

tence of the Inspector.)

times. lint the powder marks on your

make bail because Mr. Public's lawyer

Mrs. Public: So you mean to tell us

husband's

that Mr. Public is responsible for de

weapon was lired from a very short

jacked It up so high you could not afford to pay it, and so remained in

stroying your career and turning you

distance, perhaps right up against Mr.

jail. Therefore, you could hardly be

into an alcoholic, and you, of all peo

Public's chest.

the spatula slasher.

in

the room cast

1

embarrassed,

noticed

that

body

indicate

stuffs

that

the

service onto the floor and make you

clearly or function as a detective.

(Whipple.

the

But he would never

ple, are responsible for finding the

have let you get that close to him,

culprit?

which eliminates you as a suspect.

Inspector: Did

I

mention that my

Which brings us to

the Sistcr-in-

found Mr.

Public's throat severed

Which brings us to the Chauffeur, the man who swore he would make Continued anpg, ttti

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115


jovstick lunnnc Mr. Public breathe in carbon monox

payment via telecommunications to

ide fumes. You had the motive and access to the curs and the garage, bui you never had OCCCSS lo the car keys,

the

Mr. Public kept all the ear keys, refus ing to even give you a copy, just to

annoy you. As you recall, he always used to taunt you by asking you to bring the car around, and then chide you lor not having the keys, and force

you to push the car to the front of the hoUBC. But you could not then, or even on that fateful night, turn uver the cars' ignitions.

Which brings us to the Psychic. Mr. Public

did

have

a

concussion,

in

which we found fragments of a crystal

ball. The blow was so severe, it may indeed have killed him. Hut the re sponsible party is unknown, because we have discovered, partly through Mr.

Public's

efforts,

that you are a

/ was able to pick up

important clues I bad overlooked before, sucb as the used windshield the corpse was carrying under bis right arm.

company's

computer.

afternoon, and there is no need for lights, anyway.)

Inspector

Mrs.

Public,

you're

too

tense lately. You should probably try some

decaffeinated

the culprits

are

coffee.

right

here

Besides. in

this

room!

Everyone (gasping in unisiou): Utit you've cleared us all. Inspector. Who

When I noticed there

was an elastic string

could it be?!

Inspector: Who else? Hveryone else in this room has an incriminating mo

stapled in front of each

tive, a specific weapon, and the evi

of his ears, I put it

corpse

together and had my

any, some, a few, or all of (he weapons

dence that

it was applied

to

the

'ITie coroner's report staled

that the victim was indeed killed by used. The only two who would seem

man

to be in the clear are the Maid, who

complete fake. You are actually an OOt-0f-WOrk programmer who tried to pick up a little money through this

electric

Fortunately, it is two o'clock in the

found the deceased, and the Caddy, who found one ol the alleged murder

ened, coincidentally, at the exact time of the murder. Quite a coinci

weapons.

astrology scam, whose only tools of

the trade were a Commodore (>-i and

dence indeed, wouldn't you say? Yes.

briefly, and [ben wanders over to be

a Micro Astrologer disk. You cannot

in front of the Caddy, waits briefly,

give anyone a concussion with a disk

so would I. Absolutely incredible how things like this sometimes occur.

(it's sq/Vwarc). and you never owned

Which brings us to the Sleazy Black

rubber

anything even resembling a crystal ball.

Market Guy...too bad he couldn't be

face to reveal...)

Which brings

us to

(The Inspector stares out the window

then reaches down and pulls oil a mask

covering

the

Caddy's

Uncle Fred.

here, because 1 think I need a good

Everyone: Mr. Public!!!!!

Fred, would you hit this hockey puck

deal on a new windshield. Which

Inspector You might as well confess

with [his hockey stick for me?

leaves....

(Uncle Fred slaps at

right now, Public. We've got you

(All eyes now focus on Mr. Whipple.)

cold.

sends a slapshot screaming through

Inspector: Which brings us at last to

the living room, the expensive pic

Mr.

Mr. Whipple...couldn't bear to have

charge?

ture window and the windshield of

your tissue .supply cut off, could you.

the Inspector's squad car.)

Inspector: I place you under arrest

Whipple? You would'vc killed him for

for the murder of the Sleazy Black

the puck and

Inspector That will cost you Fred

Public

Oh

yeah' On what

half a squeeze, lint from my observa

Market Guy.

tions of your disgustingly penciled

(Hveryone gasps, and the Inspector

sault requires a left-handed swing,

obsession, Whipple, I would doubt that you would waste half a roll on

handcuffs Mr Public and starts to lead

meaning you could not have swung

the victim's neck. So you're off the

Mr. l*ublic: Mold on! I'm not gonna

...anyway, this hockey stick is righthanded. The nine-iron used in the as

him away.)

with enough force to kill Mr. Public. Which brings us to the Personal Sec

hook.

take this rap by myself. I did it all

(Everyone is stunned; the Inspector

retary. We did find your contract

right, but it was the Maid's idea!!

himself is the last remaining suspect, and he realizes that the others now

The Maid; You rat! You've ruined ev

know this.)

way. Once we had everyone else in

lodged in Mr. Public's windpipe, cut ting offhla ability to breathe. Yet fur ther examination revealed that the

Inspector: Which

brings us

to the

erything now!! 1 never loved you any jail. 1 would have killed you and kept

contract was missing one thing: your

last remaining suspect, me...since I'm

signature.

the only one left, 1 must have done it.

Inspector (to a Policeman who ap

I'll slap the cuffs on myself and take

pears at just the right moment) Okay,

It was a copy, cleverly

planted there to incriminate you. In fact, I think a pattern may be emerg

everything lor myself.

me away...no, wait! 1 know who did it

take them both away.

ing here, but I'm not really sure what

and why!!

Mrs. Public. 1 should have suspected

it is.

(The lights go out again. Mrs. Public

Which brings us to the Suspicious Witness Couple. You came a long way

from the tirsl. She w;is an awful house

screams again, li turns out to be the

cleaner, never able to make the beds

Witness

just to be near (he victim's house, a man who you Just happened to de

right and there was always a strange

Couple, who had earlier decided to

fiim of saliva even after she dusted the

give Mr.

spise, and whom you'd already threat-

bureau. How did you know. Inspec

medicine by negating his electricity

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revenge

of the

Suspicious

Public a taste of his own

tor?


jovstick Lunnnc How The Inspector Knew: I

thought

it was strange that I

the number two crime (the murder of the Sleazy Black Market Ciuy }. Now all

in the movies. So there's the case, tied up nice and

neat. I'm off the bottle, Mrs. Public

couldn't locate the Sleazy Black Mar

1 had to do was find Mr. Public.

ket Guy, because he's always floating around the periphery on ;i case like

liveryone else had been questioned

has her fortune back, the Sistcr-in-I,nw

about the niglit of the murder except

got a Midi) COOkbOOk replacement

this. Hut no matter how hard I looked,

for the only two people who didn't

disk. The Butler, Cook, Psychic, Per

no matter how many stones I turned

need an alibi, the Caddy and the Maid.

sonal Secretary and Chauffeur all got

up, 1 could never turn up the Sleaze-

The Maid wasn't really what you'd

their jobs back.

hall. .So I suspected foul play.

consider a looker, hut even so, Mr.

got keys for the cars. The Suspicious

Public

The Chauffeur even

viewed the corpse. Yes, it had been

wearing that maid outfit with his

witness Couple stayed in the big city, she hired on as a replacement for the

killed by all those eleven methods,

legs—uggh—-which leh the Caddy.

Maid, he as the new Sleazy Black Mar

I went hack to the coroner and re-

but in the process had become unre

could

never get

away

with

1 recalled that when 1 had asked tht-

ket Ciuy.

cognizable. Initially, being a trusting

Caddy for a mashie-nihlick, he knew

I guess these things do work out if

person by nature, I had taken every

exactly what club to give me. This

you ferret out the clues and approach

one's word for it that it w;isMr. Public

was extremely suspicious, because I

them

lying in the morgue. Now, I was able

myself thought I was asking for pota-

hear even Mr. Whipplc is overcoming

methodically

and

logically.

I

to-and-corn stew. And I also recalled

his problems and now only needs the

wasn't

where 1 got most of the Information

occasional caress of a facial tissue to

looking tor them, such as the slightly

that implicated everyone else in the

calm him down. And Mr. Public and

used windshield the corpse was car

case: that same Caddy. And I noticed

the Maid are serving tcn-to-life sen

rying under his right arm at the time

that there was an clastic string stapled

tences for murder one in the federal

of his death, which tipped me off to

in front of each of his ears. 1 put it

pen.

his true identity.

together and had my man.

to pick up Important clues thai i bud overlooked before because I

Once this was established, all the

Game, set and match, turn out the

(letting the Maid, loo, was a bonus.

lights, the party's over. And as an add I

managed

to

[brow in

previous suspects were automatically

I knew that when I fingered Mr. Pub

ed bonus,

in the clear, and I had Identified the number one suspect (Mr. Public) for

lic, he'd take the Maid down with

plugs for ten different Commodore

him. That's the way it always happens

products. Case closed.

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tremcly tough gome that some pros

have called [nfocom's most difficult The parser offers an amazing new feature that was Introduced in A Mint/

would say, '"Sir Gawaln sees a white

horse," to describe the situation. The

result is a most unusual sense of at

playing game in the "D & D" tradi tion. On the other bond, Ultima IV, new from Origin Systems and distrib

mosphere and tone thai may feel un settling until you've played it for

uted by Electronic Arts, represents

ing implies). When the program says.

awhile. Essex, another of Synapse Electronic Novels (also reviewed in

playing yet, a scenario so uncommon

"1 don't

March April), is told from the tradi

that I devoted a lengthy review to Lord Hritish's latest in the March/April

tional Bret-person perspective. A sci

Com modiirv

Forever Voyaging (which is much easier than Infix'om's "advanced" rat know the wort!

'examin'"

(because you've misspelled if or used

the most original approach to role-

Microcomputers.

(Ex

a word it doesn't know), you can now

ence fiction tale set on a Starship thai

type, "oops examine," and the parser previous command and executes it.

satirizes Star Trek's Enterprise, Essex keeps you chuckling throughout a dif ficult trip to rescue a scientist who

'ITiis saves a lot of time it' your typing

holds tile key to defeating the alien

is as bad as mine, or when you're

Vollchons,

trying to use the same verb on a suc cession of different Items whose

by previous attempts at turning the

names aren't understood by the parser.

Now it's time for this adventurer to return to the maze for more gold and golem slaying, so I'll leave you with the news thai Penguin Software is

"Dungeons and Dragons" board game

converting

into computer form absolutely must

other adventures to the new Compre

substitutes the correction in your

More Electronic Novels

Fantasy role-players

disappointed

explore the 16 manes of The Bard's

A distinctly different twist on alltext adventuring rounds the bend In Synapse's Brimstone < reviewed in

March/April Commodore Microcom

mazes, superb graphics—and the abil

puters ). Written by poei.author James

Paul, the story of Sir Gawaln, a minor

ity tO use Origin Systems' Ultima 111 characters thai have already been de

knight of the Hound Table, is told in

veloped into powerful magicians and

the third person. Instend of saying, ■'you see a while horse," the program

cept lor Hard's Title, Essex, and tiriitiStOfia, ail the games I've discussed litre are available for the Amiga as well as the C64 and C12«.)

Transylvania

and

their

hend system. Why? To lake advantage

Tale from Electronic Arts. Old-fash

of its .superior parser and larger vo

ioned monster wnomplng and spell

cabulary capacity, and add some new

casting,

puzzles to the games. And while many

deviously

fighters—make

this

designed

VI)

unquestionably

the best, perhaps (he hardest, role-

companies continue adapting novels

and TV shows into adventures, Pen guin

president

Mark

I'elc/arski re

cently revealed plans for the first graphic game based on a hit song— .Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville." COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

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ace guards may ambush you. Some times

you

can

weaken

or

kill an

attacker mil In the open by tossing

CURRIERS

Continuedfrom pg, jh

Continuedfrom pg,.! /

calls to the Commodore 64 kernal can save sprites, while the ApSoft-64

the spring of L942. The design rou

command BLOAD can recall them.

tine can also be used to modify any of the

existing

scenarios.

One slight

Sprites arc not the only special fea

change can turn the Japanese surprise

weapon. In the temples, you can liurl

ture of Ihe Commodore 64 that A/>-

attack on Pearl Harbor into the Battle

fireballs at the monks. But If that (kits

Soft'64 supports. Joysticks, light pen,

of Pearl Harbor, a fascinating look at

to stop them, you'll have to figlii ii

and paddles may be read with special

what might have happened if the Pa

out action-Style in a combat arena.

commands.

cific Fleet had not been caught un

shurikens, the razor-sharp martial arts

These

full-screen

combat

Ihe SID

chip can

be

scenes

played with the aid nfA/tSoft-6'i com

aware. All of the scenarios carry sug

exhibit the best animation ever seen

mands Ami last but not least. ApSoft-

gestions

in tliis kind ol game, scenes lhai are

(>•} .speeds up disk drive access time.

"what-if" variations.

displayed in profile like Karetteka's.

'['here

are

many

commands

for

historically

possible

Even if you never create an original

pro

Tlie author used videotapes to pat tern the combat moves after those

vided by ApSofl-6-i. and while it isn't

.scenario, ihe Design Manual is valu

necessary to go through the complete

able for several other reasons. First, it

used by genuine martial arts comba

command set, one command does de

allows you io introduce a measure of

tants. Pacing one foe at a time, yon

serve special mention. Ap$oft~64 pro

strategic

can fight with sword or kung ft], Each

vides the command "IN" to re-start

Through the design option, you can

style

flexibility

to

the

game.

ApSaft-64, resetting it to the initial

select for yourself where your subma

aimed at different parts of the body-

loading of the Af>So/l-64

software.

rines in a .scenario will be deployed.

short upper kicks, long low punches. This will prove the toughest part of

This is a very important command

The composition of your task groups,

that should be typed in each time you

which arc predetermined

the game for some people to master,

use a different program under ApSoft-

scenario according to their historical

but

affords

a

you can

half-dozen

practice

in

moves

in every

unlimited

6-7. but did not receive the attention

arrangement, can likewise be altered

training sessions before undertaking

in the manual thai ii deserves. Since

to suit your own ideas of strategy,

the actual adventure, (In fact, you can't even star! until you've passed

ApSoft-64 must do a great deal of

Secondly, in the absence of any

memory manipulation when handling

player or Strategy notes, the Design

the tests in each skill. (And the anima

graphics,

a

Manual is the next best thing. In the

tion speed is player-adjustable, so you

messy state when a graphics program

Design Manual, for instance, you will

may stari in slow motion and step it

is ended. You may load in the next

learn that carriers have a rating called

up us your finders grow more nimble

program to find that it won't run, or

a

and you've mastered each move.

that ApSofi-64 no longer recognizes

maximum number of planes that can

Depleted in a digitized photo of a hooded monk. MoeblUS makes occa

certain commands.

sional

appearances to express plea

sure with your progress or sorrow

should

the

memory

is

lett

in

The IN command

be used between every pro

spot

number,

which

equals

the

lit onto the Ilighl deck at one lime,

This number also equals the optimum Size of an air strike. A careful reading

gram.

There are 21) programs included on

of the Design Manual holds the key to

the disk besides ApSofl-64 itself.

attaining at least a basic understand

reincarnate you three times, but alter

Many of the special

ing of the capabilities of the planes

that you're dead, dead, dead. One of

demonstrated in these programs, and

the

the

upon

hearing of your death.

best

features of this

He'll

two-disk

graphics

modes

commands are are

well

dis

and .ships at your disposal. Carriers at War will not appeal to

played. Several of the programs were

everyone. Gamers who like to experi

your last saved position at any time—

originally Apple II public domain pro

ence the "feel" of battle may be disap

without having io ([nit and reload the

grams. There is a well-known data

program. 'Iliis saves a lot of time. You

base program called "Hlecabinct" and

pointed by [he game system, which distances you from the violent activ

don't have to copy a scenario disk to

a checkbook balancing program. A

ity your orders have set in motion.

play on, and there is practically no

terminal program is included to help

Battles are represented by a simple

disk

transfer Applesoft program files.

game

permits

access

you

once

to

re.stan from

you've

entered

Khantun.

The chests' and rials' contents and locations are

dashing cursor on

1;S! Software also markets several randomized

for

each

Applesoft programs on Commodore 6-1-readable disks. Currently five disks

the

screen and

even the outcomes are seen second hand through the battle reports. [f you

can do

without

watching

new game, so MoebtttS has extra re

arc offered, at the price of SI'}.95

burning carriers sink beneath the

play value. With that in mind, the au

each. There are the Great Games disk.

waves and. instead, take satisfaction in

thor included a vanity hoard that tells

Math & Statistics disk. Advanced Math

the knowledge that you have out-ma

you the number ol limes each charac

disk. Business and Finance disk, and

neuvered and out-thought your oppo

ter (up to seven may be stored on the

Mixed Titles disk.

nent, then Carriers at War will pro

disk) has found the Orb. Easier to fin

Alter working with the ApSoft-64

vide you with a tremendous amount

of enjoyment, it is a game for people

ish than UltimaIVot The Bard's Tale —though the demanding kung in and

program for some time. 1 am very im pressed with the quality of the pack

who relish a tense duel of nerves and

swordfight sequences won't be mas

age. Now 1 can trade programs with

wits. Carriers tit War displays all the

tered overnight—Mnebius offers de

friends who have other computers. I

traits of an excellent war game—it's

termined adventurers at least SO hours

hope this provides a challenge to the

realistic, versatile, engrossing, and al

of uncommon fantasy role-playing. Q

program writers out there.

ways a challenge.

122

APRIUMAY'Bf>

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HOW TO EI1TER PROGRBITIS in Power/Play 1 he programs wliich appear in this

vice-versa. Check for semicolons and

magazine have been run, tested and

colons reversed and extra or missing

checked for bugs and errors. After a

parenthesis. All of these things will

data statements,

program is tested, it is printed on a

cause a syntax error.

will be a little harder to find. Check

letter

quality

formatting then

printer

with

some

changes. This listing is

photographed

directly

and

There is only one time a syntax er

ror will tei! you the wrong1 line to look

for missing commas or other typos. If the variable is not coming from then the problem

each line that contains the variable

for typing mistakes.

at. If the line the syntax error refers to

OUT OF DATA ERROR

printed in the magazine. Using this

has a function call (i.e., FN A(3)), the

method ensures Che most error-free

syntax error may be in the line that

This error message is always re

program listings possible.

defines the function, rather than the

lated to the data statements in a pro

Whenever you see a word inside

line named in the error message. Look

gram

brackets, such as [DOWN], the word

for a line near the beginning of the

that the program has run out of data

represents a keystroke or series of

program (usually) that has DEF FN

items before it was supposed to. It is

keystrokes on the keyboard. The word

A(X) in it with an equation following

usually caused by a problem or typo

[DOWN] would be entered by press

it. Look for a typo in the equation part

in the data statements. Check first to

ing the cursor-down key. If multiple

of this definition.

see if you have left out a whole line of

keystrokes are required, the number will directly follow the word. For ox-

ample, |D0WN4| would mean to press the cursot-down

key four times.

If

there are multiple words within one

set of brackets, enter the keystrokes directly after one another. For exam

ple, |DOWN,R1GHT2) would mean to press the cursor-down key once and then the cursor-right key twice. In addition to these graphic sym bols,

the keyboard graphics are all

represented by a word and a letter

The word is either SHFT or CMD and represents the SHIFT key or the Com modore key. The letter is one of the letters on the keyboard The combina tion [SHFT E| would bo entered by holding down the SHIFT key and pressing the E. A number following the letter tells you how many times to

type the letter. For example. [SHFT A4.CMD B3] would mean to hold the SHIFT key and press the A four times, then hold down the Commodore key

ILLEGAL QUANTITY ERROR This is another common error mes sage. This can also be caused by a typing error, but it is a little harder to

find. Once again, list the line number that the error

message refers to.

There is probably a poke statement on this line. If there is, then the error is referring to what is trying to be

keys to press for any word or words inside of brackets. Refer to this chart whenever you aren't sure what keys

see on the screen,

from a pago of a magazine can be a strain on the brain, so use a ruler or a

piece of paper or anything else to help you keep track of where you are as you enter the data.

OTHER PROBLEMS It is important to remember that

range of zero to 255 to be poke-able

will only accept a line up to 80 charac

For

example,

the

statement

POKE

ters long. The VIC 20 will accept a

1024.260 would produce an illegal

line up to 88 characters long. Some

quantity error because 260 is greater

times you will find a line in a program

than 255.

that runs over this number of charac

Most often, the value being poked

ters. This is not a mistake in the list

is a variable (A,X...). This error is tell

ing. Sometimes programmers get so

ing you that this variable is out of

carried

range. If the variable is being read

that they use abbreviated commands

from data statements, then the prob

to get more than 80 (or 88) characters

lem is somewhere in the data state

on one line. You can enter these lines

ments.

by abbreviating the commands when

Check

the

data statements

away

crunching programs

CHART OF SPECIAL CHARACTER COMMANDS U

HOME

n -[CLEABl" -= SHIFTED CLR/HOME

jfl -[DOWN]"-CURSOR DOWN n "[UPI"-CURSOR UP

[I "|LEFTr'=CURSO!tLEfT H] "IHVSI"-CONTROL 9

' IPUHPLEI" =■ CONTROL 5

n ■[GHEENp-CONTROLS IBLUEl"1 -^CONTROL7

R .VELLOWI"-CONTROL 8

i

■ [cRANGEi' -commodore i

I* ■■IlKOWN]" -COMMODORE 2

j

[J

|F6|=F5

'U RED|"- COMMODORE 3

Hj "lORAYir -COMMODORE 4

SYNTAX ERROR This is by fat the most common error encountered

mas between numbers. Reading data

the 64 and the PET/CBM computers

to press. The little graphic next to the fl '[RIGHT]"-CURSOR RKSHT keystrokes shows you what you will

data. Next, check for missing com

poked. A number must be in the

and press the B three times The following chart tells you the

If this error occurs, it means

while entering

a

program. Usually (sorry folks) this means that you have typed some thing incorrectly on the line the syn

tax error refers to.

If you get the

message "?Syntax Error Break In Line 270", type LIST 270 and press RE

TURN. This will list line 270 to the screen. Look for any non-obvious mis

takes like a zero in place of an O or

B ■i;blacki"=controh !* "iWHmir-CONTROL2 H ■REDI"-CONTROL 3

";GRA¥2|"=* COMMODORE 5

|| [I GREEN]' -COMMODORES

Hi BLUEI--COMMODORE7

U'lGRAWI11-COMMODORE 8

POUND

|J| "' '" -t'P ARROW

GRAPHIC SYMBOLS WILL BE REPRESENTED AS EITHER THE LETTERS

SHFT (SHIFT) AND A KEY ("[SHFT Q.SHFT J.SHFT D.SHFT SI") OR THE LETTERS CMDR (COMMODORE) AND A KEY ("[CMDR Q.CMDR

G.COMDR Y.CMDR H)"). IF A SYMBOL IS REPEATED. THE NUMBER OF REPITITIONS WILL BE DIRECTLY AFTER THE KEY AND BEFORE THE COMMA ("[SPACE3.SHFT S4.CMDR M2]"). COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

123


you enter the line. The abbreviations for BASIC commands are on pages

How to Use the Magazine Entry Program

133-134 of the VIC 20 user guide and 130-131 of the Commodore 64 user's guide.

If you type a line that is longer than 80 (or 88) characters, the computer will act as if everything is ok, until you press RETURN. Then, a syntax error will be displayed.

This is the hardest of problems to

no error

message is dis

played, but the program just doesn't

run. This can be caused by many small mistakes typing a program in. First

check

written

for

that

the

program

the computer

was

you

are

using. Check to see if you have left out any lines of the program. Check each line of the program for typos or missing

parts.

Finally,

press

the

RUN/STOP key while the program is 'running'.

facing page is a machine language program that will assist you in enter ing

the programs in this magazine

correctly. It is for use with the Com modore 64 only and was written by Mark Robm using

THE PROGRAM WON'T RUN!! resolve;

The Magazine Entry Program on the

Write down the line the

program broke at and try to follow the program backwards from this point, looking for problems,

the

IEA Editor/

Assembler. Once the program is in place, it works its magic without you having to do anything else The pro gram will not let you enter a line if there is a typing mistake on it, and better yet, it identifies the kind of erroi for you.

Type in the Magazine Entry Pro gram carefully and save it as you go

along (just in case), Once the whole program is typed in, save it again on tape or disk. Now RUN the program The word POKING will appear on the top of the screen with a number. The number will increment from 49152 up to 50052, and )ust lets you know that

rope. You can't get the program to run and you can't find any errors in your typing. What do you do? As al

ways, we suggest that you try a local user group for help. In a group of even just a dozen members,

someone is

bound to have typed in the same pro gram.

If you do get a working copy, be sure to compare it to your own ver sion so that you can learn from your

errors and increase you understand ing of programming,

and end. Then type NEW. If there is a problem with

the

data

statements,

the program will tell you where to find the problem.

Once the program has run, it is in memory ready to go, To activate the

program,

that line into memory. This makes it impossible to enter a line incorrectly.

Error Messages and What They Mean There are six error messages that the Magazine Entry Program uses. Here they are, along with what they mean and how to fix them.

NO CHECKSUM: This means that

is ok, the program will finish running

You've come to the end of your

If the Magazine Entry Program sees a mistake on a line, it does not enter

you forgot to enter the apostrophe

Getting Started

the program is running. If everything

IK ALL ELSE FAILS

IMPORTANT

type SYS49152 and press

RETURN. Whan the READY prompt is displayed, type TEST and press RE TURN. You are now ready to enter the

programs from the magazine. Typing the Programs All the program listings in this

and the four letters at the end of the line. Move the cursor to the end of the line you just typed and enter the checksum.

QUOTE: This means that you for got (or added) a quote mark some where in the line. Check the line in the magazine and correct the quote.

PARENTHESIS: This means that you forgot (or added) a parenthesis somewhere in the line, Check the line in the magazine again and correct the parenthesis.

KEYWORD: Thas means that you have either forgotten a command or spelled one of the BASIC keywords (GOTO,

PRINT..) incorrectly.

Check

the line in the magazine again and check your spelling.

# OF CHARACTERS: This means that

you have either

characters or missed

entered extra some

charac

ters. Check the line in the magazine

again. This error message will also occur if you misspell a BASIC com

magazine that are for the 64 have an

mand, but create another keyword in

don't

apostrophe followed by four letters at

doing so. For example, if you misspell

have a local user group, or you simply

the end of the line (i.e., :ACDF). The

PRINT as PRONT, the 64 sees the

can't get any help, write to us. If you

apostrophe and letters should be en

letter P and R, the BASIC keyword ON

do write to us, include the following

tered along with the rest of the line.

and then the letter T. Because it sees

information about the program you

This is a checksum that the Magazine

the keyword ON. it thinks you've got

are having problems with:

Entry Program uses.

If you live in the

country,

The name of the program

too many characters, instead of a sim

ple misspelling.

Check spelling of

The issue of the magazine it was in

end and then press RETURN, just as

BASIC

The computer you are using

you normally would.

anything else wrong.

Any error messages and the line numbers

If the line is entered correctly, a bell is sounded and the line is entered into

commands

if you

can't find

UNIDENTIFIED: This means that you have either made a simple spell

Anything displayed on the screen

the computer's memory (without the

ing error, you typed the wrong line

A printout of your listing (if possible)

characters at the end).

number, or you typed the checksum

Send your questions to:

if a mistake was made while enter

incorrectly.

Spelling errors could be

ing the line, a noise is sounded and

the wrong number of spaces inside

an error message is displayed. Read

quotes, a variable spelled wrong, or a

1200 Wilson Drive

the error message, then press any key

word misspelled. Check the line in

West Chester, PA 19380 ATTN: Program Problem

to erase the message and correct the

the magazine again and correct the

line.

mistake.

Power/Play Magazine

124

Enter the line and the letters at the

APRIL/MAY'86

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1

PRINT

5

P=49152

^3 Magazine Entry Piograrais available on dish, along with the other programs in !hii magaiino, lor

S9.95.To ordercontanLoadstaratl-800-B31-Z6M.

" [CLEAR]POKING-"; :REM

SCOO0

10

READ A$:IF A$="END "THEN

20

L=ASC(MIDS(A$,2,1) )

30

1050

DATA

1051 105 2

DATA

105 3

DATA

84,FD,CO,09,lO,tJ3,4C,C7 C1,88,88,88,88,B8,B1,7A

DATA

41,52,45,4E,54,48,45,53 49,5 3,0a,C8,Bl,7A,DO,FB

30

H=ASC(MID$(AS,1,1)

1054

DATA

C9,27,D0,I3,A9,O0,91,7A

40

L=L-48 :IF

L=L-7

1055

DATA

50 60

H=H-48 :IF H>9 THEN H=H-7 PRINT" [HOME,RIGHT1 2]"P;

C3,A2,OO,B1,7A,9D,3C,03

1056

DATA

1057

DATA

C8,E8,EO,04,DO,F5,6O,4C F2,C2,A3,00,89,00,02,99

70

B=H*16+L:POKE

1058

DATA

4 0,33,FO,F2,C8,D0,F5,AO

1059

DATA

00,B9,4O,03,F0,E8,99,00

1060

D<VTA

O2,C8,DO,F5,20,D7,C1,4C

1061

DATA

56,C2,AH,OB,A9,0 0,9 9,W3

1062

DATA

CO,3D,3C,03,88,1O,F7,A9 8O,85,O2,2O,1B,C3,AO,0O

L>9

I

THEN

P,B: r=T+B:P=P+l

:GOTO

10 TO 103233

80

II ■

90

DATA - -> CHECK DATA PRINT" 30NE":END

THEN

PRINT"MISTAKE

IN

STATEMENTS":END

1000

DATA

4C,23,CO,O0 ,00,00,00,03

106 3

DATA

1001

DATA

00,00,00,00 ,00,00,00,00

1064

DATA

2O,9B,C1,2O,CA,C1,20F31

1002

DATA

0O,58,C1,5E ,C1,66,C1,76

1065

DATA

C2,E6,7A,E6,7B,20,7C,A5

1003

DATA

C1,83FC1,8F ,C1,EA,EA,EA

1066

DATA

AfI,O0,2O,AF,CO,F(l,CD,24

1004

DATA

4CF83,C0,A2 ,05,BD,ID,CO

1067

DATA

02,FO,O6,2(J,D7,CO,4C,12

1005

DATA

95,73,CA,10 ,F8,60FAO,02

1068

DATA

C2,C9,22,DOF06,20,BC,C0

1006

DATA

DATA

4C,12,C2,20,E7,CO,4C,12

DATA

1070

DATA

1008

B9,!10,O2,D9 ,3C,C1,D0,0B 88,10,F5,A9 ,01,8D,10,CO DATA 4C,1F,C1,60 ,A0,03,B9,00

1069

1007

1071

DATA

C2,AO,OO,B9,OO,02,20,A3 Cfl,C8,9O,OA,18,6D,O9,C0

1009

DATA

02,D9,38,C1 ,D0,E0,88,10

1072

DATA

SD,09,C0,4C,3 3,C2,8 8,A2

1010

DATA

F5,A9,00,8D ,10,CO,4C,IF

1073

DATA

1011

DATA

C1,6D,AO,03 ,89,00,02,09

1074

DATA

OO,B9,OO,O2,9D,OO,0 2,FO O4,E8,C8,D0,F4,GO,13,AD

1012

DATA

34,C1,D1I,E0 ,88,10,F5,A0

1075

DATA

OB,CO,69,41,80,OB,CO,33

1013 1014 1015

DATA

1076 1077

DATA

AD,0C,CO,E9,19,9fl,06,8D

DATA

05,B9,A2,E3 ,99,73,00,88 10,F7,A9,00 ,8D,18,D4,4C

DATA

0C,C0,4C,S0,C2,AD,OC,CO

DATA

1F,C1,E6,7A ,D0,02,E6,7B

1078

DATA

69,41,8D,0C,C0,AD,O5,C0

1016

DATA

1079

DATA

6D,07,CO,48,AD,06,CO,SD

1017

DATA

4C,79,00,A5 ,9D,F0,F3,A5 7A,C9,FF,D0 ,ED,A5,78,C9

1080

DATA

08,CO,8D,OE,CO,68,6D,0A

1018

DATA

01,D0,E7,20 ,5A,C0,AD,O0

1081

DATA

Ca,8D,flD;C0,AD,0E,COF6D

1019

DATA

02,20,A3,C0 ,90,DC,A0,00

1082

DATA

1020

DATA

4C,EA,C1,C9 ,30,30,06,C9

1083

DATA

09,CO,3D,OE,CO,38,E9,19 9O,06,8D,0E,C0,4C,96,C2

1021

DATA

DATA

ADFOE,CO,69,41,8D,0EFC0

DATA

3A,10,02,38 ,60,18,60,C8 B1,7A,C9,20 ,D0,03,C8,D0

1084

1022

1085

DATA

AD,0D,C0,E9,19,90,OS,8D

1023

DATA

F7,B1,7A,60 F18,C8,B1F7A

1086

DATA

(lD,C0F4C,AB,C2,AD,0D,Cn

1024

DATA

F0,35,C9,22 ,F0,F5,6D,05

1087

DATA

69,41,8D,0D,CO,A0,01,AD

1025

DATA

C0,8D,05,C0 ,AD,06FC0,S9

1088

DATA

1026

DATA

00,3D,06,CO ,4C,BD,C0,18

1089

DATA

0B,C0,CD,3C,fl3,DOF2O,C8 AD,0C,CO,CD,3D,0 3,DO,17

1027

DATA

6D,07,C0,3D ,07,CO,90,03

1090

DATA

C8, AD, (ID, CO, CD, 3E, 0 3, DO

1028 1029 1030

DATA

EE,08,Cfl,EE , 0 B , C 0 , (j 0 , 18

1091

DATA

0E,AD,OE,CO,CD,3F,O3,D0

DATA

6D,OA,C0,8D ,0A,C0,911,03 EE,09,C0,EE ,0C,CO,60,0A

1092

DATA

1093

DATA

1031

DATA

1094

DATA

1032

DATA

A8,S9,11,C0 ,85,FB,B9,12 CO,85,FC,A0 ,Ofl,A9,12,20

0 6,20,6 4,C3,4C,7A,CO,AD 10,CO,DO,11,98,48,68,4C F7,C0,AD,10,C0,F0,01,6O

1095

DATA

A9,04,4C,F7,C0,A4,FD,A9

1033

DATA

D2,FF,B1,FB ,FO,06,2O,D2

1C96

DATA

27,91,7A,A2,0(1,C8,BD,OB

1034

DATA

1097

DATA

C0,91,7A,C8,E8,£0,(14,00

1035

DATA

FF,C8,D0,P6 ,2fl,54,C3,20 7E,C3,20,E4 ,FF,F0,FB,A0

1098

DATA

F5,A9,OO,91,7A,20,64,C3

1036

DATA

1BFB9,3FFC1 ,20,D2,FF,88

1099

DATA

4C,7A,CO,AOr0G,B9,OOFO2

1037

DATA

10,F7,68,68 ,A9,OH,8D,00

1100

DATA

FO,11,CO,23,DO,03,EE,03

1038

DATA

1101

DATA

CO,C9,29,DO,03,EE,04,CO

DATA

1039

DATA

02,4C,74,A4 ,4B,49F4C,4C 54,45,53,54 ,41,44,44,91

1102

DATA

C8,DO,fc:A,AD,0 3,C0,CD,O4

104 0

DATA

91,ODF20,20 ,20,20,20,20

1103

DATA

CO,D0,O1,6O,A9,O5,4C,F7

1041

DATA

20,20,20,20 ,20,20,20,20

1104

DATA

C0FA9,20,3D,0f),D4,BD,01

1042

DATA

20,20,20,20 ,20,20,91,OD

1105

DATA

D4,A9,O9,8D,(I5,D4,A9,1!F

1043

DATA

51,55,4F,54 ,45,00,4B,45

DATA

SD,18,D4,60,20,41,C3,A9

104 4

DATA

59,57,4F,52 ,44,30,23,20

1045 1046

DATA

4F,46,20,43 ,48,41,52,41

HOT) 1107 1109

DATA

43,54,45,52 ,53,00,55,4E

1109

1047

DATA

49,44,45,4E ,54,49,45,49

1110

1048

DATA

45,44,00,4E ,4F,20,43,48

1111

DATA

04,D4,A2,70,A0,(13,8 8,D0

1049

DATA

45,43.4B,53 ,55,4D,Ol>,50

1112

DATA

PD,CA,D0,FA,6O,END

DATA

Sl,20,77,C3,A9,80,2u,77

DATA DATA

C3,4C,71,C3,20,41,C3,A9 11,20,77,C3,A9,10,20,77

DATA

C3,A9,OO,SD,(J4 FD4 ,6 0, 3D

COMMODORE POWER/PLAV

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lulled into

a deep sleep.

is not a virtue, you can also use cer

by a sharp bump and crash. The house

tain shoo phrases such as "look." "ex

is quiet and still. Carefully, cautiously,

amine object," "inventory," and

you open

"who," as well as specific abbrevia

the front door and

take

your first small, tentative step. . .over

tions like "I I" for up. "E" for east, and

the rainbow.

TM" for Tinman.

A number of helpful commands are

For those of us who have already

common to both of these Windham

read these books, Wiudham Classics

adventures:

provide the ultimate re-experience of

CREATE,

SAVE,

RE

STORE, RESTART, and QUIT. These

far-away

allow you to create a disk, save a disk,

and long-feared villains, lint particu

save a current game position, restore

larly for those of us whose children

lands, beloved old

friends,

position, restart

look upon reading a thick novel as an

play from the beginning Of the story.

old-fashioned form of slow torture in-

or end a playing session. But three

fljeted upon them by teachers and

additional commands. WORDS, PICTURESON and PICTURESOFF, arc ex

parents. Windham's adventures are a

clusive to Windham adventures.

FAN

I

Then, with a deep Strained shudder and a mighty crash, the eulire house

a particular game

SINGLC

adventuresome, just type PICTURE-

The whole world starts to rattle and

Hours later you are rudely awakened

B.

text-only game. Of course,

arms and race hack Into the house.

way to an

ll'.iieni Pending)

familiar

pliment to the pictures In your mind. Treasure Island and Tin- Wizard of

snake-like storm,

COOL STACK II

lnfocom addicts out there, typing

the cellar, you scoop Toto up in your

With no time to reach the shelter of

But high

A.

gorgeous

three very unusual sidekicks.

Your adventure ;is Dorothy begins

Commodore 1510, !S41 S 1571 owners. Stacking your drives greatly increases

Treasure Island and The Wizard of Oz are accompanied by

The command WORDS summons

marvelous new way to expose them

to classic literature—and they'll nev er even know it unless you till them.

up the WordWindow, an innovative

But do tell them, eventually. An intro

help feature to make play more enjoy

duction to adventure classics, the

able.

"Windham

II at any time you are having

difficulty with

commands,

simply

lead

to a

way"

can

very possibly

minor miracle.

For after

type the word WORDS, and a list of all

they've played the story,

they jus!

the verbs and nouns suitable for the

might want to actually read the story.

particular scene you are playing will

Whether you lean toward action-

appear. Peruse the list for ideas, and then either hit any key to go back to

adventure like Treasure Island or die fantasy-adventure of The Wizard of

your game, or hit the spacebar to see

Oz.

another screen of additional words. I

that you treat yourself to the experi

found WordWindow to be a more

ence of a Windham Classic

[ban welcome addition to adventur

I

wholeheartedly recommend

So play yourself a good novel. Su

ing—particularly useful at those in

perbly written him books have heen

evitable points in play when you arc

available at your local library for dec

literally at a loss lor words.

ades.

Q


COMMODORE'S

NEWS

FROM THE BACK

Computer Accessories

Duncom has introduced The Notcher, a device that makes single-sided computer diskettes double-

sided, and a Wet System Disk Head Cleaner. Both products are designed for use with 5-1/4 floppy disks.

The Notcher, while not intended to render the disk's second side useful for primary data storage, provides the user with a convenient way to manufacture back-up or duplicate copies of important data disks. It punches out a notch on single-sided disk jackets in the locations reserved for "writeprotect" notches on double-sided disks.

Suncom's Wet System Disk Head Cleaner removes particulate matter, smoke residue, dust and corrosion which build up on disk heads after extended periods of use.

The Notaher retails for $9.95 and the Disk Head Cleaner retails for $7,95. (Suncom, 260 Holbrook Drive, Wheeling, IL 60090)

Inexpensive Color Printer for Amiga Xlmiga users can now print the Amiga's 4,096 colors using Okidata's Okimate 20

and Plug 'N Print Kit. The Okimate 20 is a ribbon-transfer color printer with multiple functions and capabilities. In the word processing mode, the Okimate 20

prints 80 characters per second in standard type, with letter-quality capabilities at 49 characters per second. Users also have the option of several type fonts, Including wide print, boldface, fine print, and italics, Underlining, superscripts and subscripts are standard features.

The Okimate SO has a 24-element printhead, built-in friction and pin feed paper, variable-width tractor feed, and an 8K buffer. Users can print in either 80 standard columns or 132 columns using condensed typeThe Plug TJ Print kit contains an interface module, data cable, cartridge ribbons

(color and black), sample computer paper, and instructions. The Amiga has the Okimate SO built into its menu so users can transfer full-color, high-resolution Images from the screen to the printer without outside programs.

The printer retails for $169 and the Amiga Plug TJ Print retails for $99. (Okidata, 532 Fellowship Road, Mt. Laurel, HJ 08054)

Telecommunications via Packet Radio xi. petition to create a new radio communications service specifically for personal computer owners was recently filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The proposed service would allow computer owners to exchange messages, bulletins,

computer programs and other information via packet radio in much the same way that information is exchanged using a modem and telephone. The radio service, however, would have no connect-time or phone-line charges, although users would have to purchase a special radio modem to access the service.

Don Stoner, of Mercer Island, Washington, who filed the petition with the FCC in October 1985, has dubbed the service Public Digital Radio. In his petition, Stoner proposed that the FCC designate a wideband packet radio channel exclusively for the purpose of computer communication. The channel he proposes to use for Public Digital Radio is an "underoccupled" channel between 52 and 54 MHz. Packet radio, according to Stoner, works like the radio equivalent of the Postal Service. A message is "addressed" to a recipient and sent out over the air waves at extremely high speeds. It is passed along via a network of otherusers until it reaches its destination. Its

main limitation is distance. The signal must be picked up and passed along by another "node" within about a mile or it fades and is lost. Ifyou wouldlike to support Stoner's petition, write to the Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C. 20554. Reference Donald L. Stoner's proposal for the creation of a Public Digital Radio Service, Rule Making Number RM-5241, submitted October SO, 1985. COMMODORE POWER/PLAY

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Bantam Books

3

39

Brown Bag Software

4

21

Carbo Tech

5

126

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CBM Software

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27, C3, 37

C.O.M.B. Co.

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620

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:PRINT#1,B2$+S1$+S3$+SPS+B6S'KFXU X=l

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(S2S,29)+B6S+S1$+S3S+SP$+B6S'MPQR NEXT'BAEC

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Digital Solutions

6

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7

92

EPYX

8

15

GSR Software

9

108

Howard W. Sams & Co.

10

41

Loadstar

11

46

Mastertronics

12

19

Microprose Software

13

2

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14

108

Okidata

15

13

Prolecto

16

48-65

Pro-Tech-Tronic

17

117

Quantumlink

18

8,10,12,14,16-17

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19

117

Steve Leven

20

92

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21

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22

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23

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27

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910

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128

APRUMAY'86

END


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